GWORKSPACE(1)

✨ GWORKSPACE(1) — General Commands Manual 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay bestie, so the whole thing is GWorkspace — the GNUstep Workspace Manager 💅✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

GWorkspace

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so this page gives you the quick tea on the GWorkspace GNUstep app 🫶 it was written for the Debian distribution because the original program didn't have a manual page, so we're fixing that era 🙈

GWorkspace is the official GNUstep workspace manager, and it's literally a clone of NeXT's workspace manager. iconic behavior, no notes 👑

first-time setup 🎀 the first time you run GWorkspace you HAVE to set some preferences, bestie, because it needs a default editor to work 😭 it can also be an app-wrapper. to set your editor, open the preferences window, pick "Default Editor" from the pop-up, then click the "choose" button. an open-panel shows up so you can browse your directories and pick your editor 🗂️

also, GWorkspace lets you open a terminal on the current directory with alt-t ⌨️ to set your preferred terminal (the default is xterm), choose "XTerminal" from the pop-up. main character terminal energy 🖥️💜

there are a bunch of accompanying programs that you normally won't invoke yourself 💀 some of them run as daemons and get launched by GWorkspace itself. here's the lowdown:

♻️ Recycler

the "trashcan" of the situation 🗑️ files you delete with the GWorkspace menu's "Move to Recycler" can be restored, so no panic. it can be docked 🫧

🧚 ddbd

this daemon keeps the GWorkspace database running smoothly. it lives at $HOME/GNUstep/Library/ddbd 📂

👀 fswatcher

the filesystem watcher daemon 🔍 it just keeps an eye on things, iykyk.

🌈 lsfupdater

a tool that updates the "Live Folders" 🔄✨ slay.

🔎 searchtool

a helper tool for GWorkspace's Finder module 🦋

🎀 wopen

okay this one is actually for you 🫶 it's a tool to open files via GWorkspace, and it's specifically designed to be invoked by the user. it takes one argument, the filename you want to open, and that filename can be relative or absolute. just a heads-up: GWorkspace must be running first, or it won't work 🙅‍♀️

🧩 MODULES 🧩

besides its standard Contents Inspectors (App, Folder, Image, Sound, Pdf-Ps, Rtf, text, Plist, Strings and Inspector viewers), GWorkspace can dynamically load other modules that you can build separately 🛠️ you just put them in a place where GWorkspace looks for them, for example: ~/GNUstep/Library/GWorkspace 📁

you can also add other viewers beside the standard Browser, Icon and Small Icons viewers 🍓 and if you want to write a brand new inspector or viewer, go peek in the Template directory. it's giving developer glow-up 💜

🌍 LANGUAGES 🌍

GWorkspace speaks English, French, German, Italian and Romanian 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇷🇴 polyglot icon behavior ✨

⚙️ OPTIONS ⚙️

ngl, GWorkspace doesn't support any command-line options 💀 (except the standard GNUstep ones, obviously). no cap, the vibe is GUI-only 🫶

🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

• http://www.gnustep.it/enrico/gworkspace/ 🌸
• http://www.gnustep.org/ 🌈
• GNUstep(7) 💖
• openapp(1) 🦋
• defaults(1) 💅

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okay bestie that's the whole tea ☕💜 written for Debian, June 19, 2014 — GWORKSPACE(1) signing off with a kiss and a bow 💋🎀 periodt ✨