Command line invocation

Without arguments

Startup window when no connection parameters are passed

• Database name: login name of the current unix user.
• Login: also the login name of the current unix user.
• Password: empty.
• Host: empty, which means connect locally to an unix domain socket.
• More parameters: empty.

Optional arguments

The possible arguments are:

• --dbcnx: list of space-separated name=value parameters, all grouped in one string (under a shell, the string should be enclosed in simple or double quotes if it contains spaces).The more common parameters are:
  • user
  • password
  • host
  • port
  • dbname
  For a full description of all possible parameters, see the PostgreSQL manual's section related to connecting to the database.
• --config: a configuration's name. See the section about configurations for details.
• --debug-output: an integer debug level between 1 and 10. Useful only for developpers.

Unix version

The syntax is --option_name=option value or option_name option_value, different options being separated by white spaces. Options can also be abbreviated by their first letters, for example -d instead of --dbcnx.

Example:

$ manitou --dbcnx="dbname=mail user=dan host=pgserver" --config danconf

On X11, the program also accepts arguments for the windowing system, such as -display, -fn, -geometry... Refer to your X-Window documentation for a complete description.

MS-Windows version

The windows version also accepts arguments. They can either be supplied when launching the program on a command line, or by creating a desktop shortcut to manitou.exe with those arguments in the shortcut "Target" entry. Example:

c:\programs\manitou\manitou.exe --dbcnx "dbname=mail user=dan host=pgserver" --config myconf