# Gamin the File Alteration Monitor

## Using gamin

Main Menu

- Home
- Overview
- Using gamin
- Configuration
- News
- Downloads
- Python bindings
- Developers informations
- Contacts
- FAQ
- Debugging Gamin
- Security
- Internals
- Differences from FAM
- ChangeLog

Related links

- Mail archive
- FAM project
- sources
- GNOME Bugzilla
- Red Hat Bugzilla

Basically it is exactly like for using the fam interface. From a programmer point of view this is the same API, and one can make use of the existing FAM documentation. Daniel Veillard