videobase-gaby1

Usage

Overview

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 ).