NAME

       GWorkspace - GNUstep Workspace Manager

SYNOPSIS

       GWorkspace

DESCRIPTION

       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:

   Recycler
       Acts as a “trashcan”; files deleted from the GWorkspace menu “Move to Recycler” can be restored.  Can  be
       docked.

   ddbd
       This    daemon    is    responsible    for    maintaining    the    GWorkspace   database,   located   at
       $HOME/GNUstep/Library/ddbd.

   fswatcher
       Filesystem watcher daemon.

   lsfupdater
       A tool that updates the “Live Folders”.

   searchtool
       A helper tool for GWorkspace's Finder module.

   wopen
       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.

MODULES

       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.

LANGUAGES

       GWorkspace speaks English, French, German, Italian and Romanian.

OPTIONS

       Like most GNUstep applications, GWorkspace does not support any command-line options (except the standard
       GNUstep ones).

SEE ALSO

       http://www.gnustep.it/enrico/gworkspace/
       http://www.gnustep.org/
       GNUstep(7)
       openapp(1)
       defaults(1)

                                                  June 19, 2014                                    GWORKSPACE(1)