GWorkspace - GNUstep Workspace Manager
GWorkspace
This manual page documents briefly the
GWorkspace GNUstep application.
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original
program does not have a manual page.
GWorkspace is the official GNUstep workspace manager. It is a clone of
NeXT's workspace manager.
The first time you run
GWorkspace you must set some preferences:
GWorkspace needs a default editor to work. It can also be an app-wrapper.
To set your editor, open the preferences window and choose “Default
Editor” from the pop-up, then click on the “choose”
button: from an open-panel you will be able to browse your directories and
choose the editor.
GWorkspace lets you open a terminal on the current directory (alt-t). To
set your preferred terminal (the default is “xterm”), choose
“XTerminal” from the pop-up.
There are several accompanying programs which normally are not intended to be
invoked directly by the user. Some of them run as daemons and are launched by
GWorkspace itself. Here is a short description:
Acts as a “trashcan”; files deleted from the
GWorkspace
menu “Move to Recycler” can be restored. Can be docked.
This daemon is responsible for maintaining the
GWorkspace database,
located at
$HOME/GNUstep/Library/ddbd.
Filesystem watcher daemon.
A tool that updates the “Live Folders”.
A helper tool for
GWorkspace's Finder module.
A tool to open files via
GWorkspace. This program is specifically
designed to be invoked by the user. It accepts one argument, the filename to
be opened, which can be relative or absolute.
GWorkspace must be
running.
Besides its standard Contents Inspectors, that is, App, Folder, Image, Sound,
Pdf-Ps, Rtf, text, Plist, Strings and Inspector viewers,
GWorkspace can
dynamically load other modules which you can build separately. It is
sufficient to put them in a place where
GWorkspace looks for them, for
example: ~/GNUstep/Library/GWorkspace.
In the same way you can add other viewers besides the standard Browser, Icon and
Small Icons viewers. If you want to write a new inspector or a new viewer,
take a look in the Template directory.
GWorkspace speaks English, French, German, Italian and Romanian.
Like most GNUstep applications,
GWorkspace does not support any
command-line options (except the standard GNUstep ones).
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