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NAME

       gdnc - GNUstep Distributed Notification Center

SYNOPSIS

       gdnc

DESCRIPTION

       The  gdnc  daemon  is used by GNUstep programs to send notifications and messages to one another.  By default it uses private inter-process
       communications accessible only to the curtrent user on the machine on which it is running (where the operating system supports them).

       Every user needs to have his own instance of gdnc running. While gdnc will be started automatically as soon as it is needed, it	is  recom-
       mended  to  start  gdnc	in a personal login script like ~/.bashrc or ~/.cshrc.	Alternatively (if you have no command-line tools which use
       distributed notifications) you can launch gdnc when your windowing system or the window manager is started. For example,  on  systems  with
       X11  you  can launch gdnc from your .xinitrc script or alternatively - if you are running Window Maker - put it in Window Maker's autostart
       script.	See the GNUstep Build Guide for a sample startup script.

OPTIONS

       To attach gdnc to a remote session use the

       -NSHost hostname
	      argument.

       To run a copy of the server to handle public notifications (available to all users on the local machine)

       -GSPublic YES

       To run a copy of the server to handle network-public notifications (available to all users able to connect to the local machine on the net-
       work)

       -GSNetwork YES

DIAGNOSTICS

       gdomap -L GDNCServer will lookup instances of gdnc which were launched with the NSHost, GSPublic, or GSNetwork command line arguments.

       Alternatively, gdomap -N will list all registered names on the local host.

SEE ALSO

       gdomap(8), GNUstep(7), gpbs(1)

       The GNUstep Build Guide example startup script: <http://gnustep.made-it.com/BuildGuide/index.html#GNUSTEP.SERVICES>

HISTORY

       Work on gdnc started October 1998.

       This manual page first appeared in gnustep-base 1.7.2 (July 2003).

AUTHORS

       gdnc was written by Richard Frith-Macdonald <rfm@gnu.org>.

       This man page was written by Martin Brecher <martin@mb-itconsulting.com>.

GNUstep 							    August 2003 							   GDNC(1)