---
name: "gaby"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "gaby"
version: "2.0.2-10.1"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/gaby"
---

# gaby(1)

small personal databases manager

## NAME

gaby - small personal databases manager

## SYNOPSIS

**gaby** \[ **--as** name \] \[ **--version** \] \[ **--help** \]

## DESCRIPTION

**Gaby** is a \_small\_ personal databases manager for Linux using GTK+ (http://www.gtk.org) and Gnome (if available, http://www.gnome.org) for its GUI.

It was designed to provide straight-forward access to databases a 'normal' user would like (addresses, books, ...) while keeping the ability to easily create databases for other needs. On a technical side it was designed with extensibility in mind and thus use relies a lot on plug-ins.

## OPTIONS

These options can be supplied to the command:

- **-a, --as** name

  Starts Gaby using an alternative descfile (see below).

- **--disable-other-windows**

  Doesn't load additional windows defined in the descfile.

- **--skip-startup-actions**

  Doesn't launch startup actions (standard or defined in the descfile).

- **-V, --version**

  Displays the Gaby version number and compile-time definitions.

- **-h, --help**

  Displays a short help message

## DESCFILES

Simply launching Gaby will put you in an addressbook but the title says that Gaby is a personal databases manager, not an addressbook. Other kinds of databases are defined in "descfiles" (short for description file) located in the system configuration directory (usually /etc) or the user's Gaby directory (~/.gaby).

There are two ways to use those files; you may use the --as option (as in  *gaby --as gcd* ) or you may create a symlink (as in *ln -s gaby /usr/bin/gaby* ).

## SEE ALSO

[**gabybuilder**(1)](/gabybuilder/1.md), [**gabyprint**(1)](/gabyprint/1.md), [**gabyscript**(1)](/gabyscript/1.md)

A complete documentation (including user, advanced user and developer guides) should be available in /usr/doc/gaby/ (or where your particular distribution puts docs).

There should also be a bunch of README files with useful informations.

and the website is located at http://gaby.sourceforge.net

## AUTHOR

Frederic Peters (fpeters@entrouvert.be)