There are several command line arguments that can be used to control the execution of ParaView. These are group below into three categories: General, Parallel, and Mesa. When more than one option is indicated as is the case with --play-demo and -pd, either option can be used.
General
--start-empty, -e : Start ParaView without any default modules. This option is useful when the user wants to customize ParaView and wants to disable all default sources, filters, readers and toolbar buttons.
--disable-registry, -dr : Do not use registry when running ParaView (useful for testing). With this option, ParaView will ignore all stored user settings and use the default values. No settings will be saved either.
--play-demo, -pd : Run the ParaView demo.
--help : Displays available command line arguments.
Parallel
--use-rendering-group, -p : Use a subset of processes to render. This is useful on systems/clusters which have a limited number of rendering nodes. It allows to run ParaView on more nodes than available rendering nodes while only rendering on the subset.
--group-file, -gf : When using the --use-rendering-group options, the number of nodes to render with is read from this file (usage --group-file=fname).
--use-tiled-display, -td : Duplicate the final data to all nodes and tile node displays 1-N into one large display.
--tile-dimensions-x, -tdx : -tdx=X where X is number of displays in each row of the display.
--tile-dimensions-y, -tdy : -tdy=Y where Y is number of displays in each column of the display.
Mesa
--use-software-rendering, -r : Use software (Mesa) rendering on all nodes. This is useful when the user wants to have a window only on the first node's display. This is accomplished with using this option in combination with the PV_OFFSCREEN environment variable.
--use-satellite-software, -s : Use software (Mesa) rendering only on satellite processes. This is useful when the user wants to have a window only on the first node's display. This is accomplished with using this option in combination with the PV_OFFSCREEN environment variable. Furthermore, since the first node uses hardware accelerated rendering, the performance is not compromised when rendering locally.