openapp - launch applications from the command line
openapp [
--find] [
--debug [
--gdb= debuger]] [
--library-combo=library-combo ]
application
[
arguments...]
The
openapp command allows you to launch graphical GNUstep applications
from the command line.
application is the complete or relative name of the application program
with or without the .app extension, like
Ink.app.
arguments are the arguments passed to the application.
openapp first checks whether the application is in the current working
directory. If not then searches the GNUstep domains' Applications folders in
the following order: User (i.e.
~/GNUstep/Applications), Local,
Network, System. First match wins.
-
--find application
- will print out the full path of the application executable
which would be executed, without actually executing it. It will also list
all paths that are attempted.
-
--debug application
- starts the application in the debugger. By default
gdb, but this can be changed with the --gdb= argument or
through the GDB shell variable.
-
--library-combo=library-combo
- Starts the application with the specified library combo.
This is a rarely used option in a non-flattened setup. See the
library-combo(7) man-page for more information about the different
library combinations.
- --help
- print above usage description.
Start
Ink.app without additional parameters:
openapp Ink.app
Launch
Ink.app and pass it the
--debug argument:
openapp --debug Ink.app
To determine which executable is launched by openapp, type:
openapp --find Ink.app
The output of the above command might be something like:
/usr/GNUstep/Local/Applications/Ink.app/Ink
- GNUSTEP_CONFIG_FILE
- is used to determine where the GNUstep.sh
configuration file is located. If the variable is not set openapp
tries to locate it in the folder where openapp was started, then in
the user domain, and as a last resort in the system domain (or actually
the place you configured (--with-config-file=) during
building).
- GDB
- Sets the debugger to use when --debug is used.
debugapp(1),
GNUstep(7),
gopen(1),
library-combo(7),
opentool(1)
Work on
openapp started October 1997.
openapp was originally written by Ovidiu Predescu
<
[email protected]> and is now maintained by Nicola Pero
<
[email protected]>
This manual page was first written July 2003 by Martin Brecher
<
[email protected]>.
Updated with notes from Hubert Chathi <
[email protected]> and Dennis Leeuw
<
[email protected]>, December 2007 by Dennis Leeuw.