gpbs(1)

NAME

   gpbs - GNUstep PasteBoard Server

SYNOPSIS

   gpbs

DESCRIPTION

   The  gpbs daemon serves as a clipboard/pasteboard for GNUstep programs,
   handling the copying, cutting and pasting of objects as  well  as  drag
   and drop operations between applications.

   Every user needs to have his own instance of gpbs
     running.  While  gpbs  will be started automatically as soon as it is
   needed, it is recommend to start gpbs in a personal login  script  like
   ~/.bashrc  or  ~/.cshrc.   Alternatively  you can launch gpbs when your
   windowing system or the window manager  is  started.  For  example,  on
   systems  with  X11  you  can  launch  gpbs 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

   -NSHost <hostname>
          attaches gpbs to a remote session.

   --GSStartupNotification
          sends a notification through the NSDistributedNotificationCenter
          (i.e.   gdnc)  so that apps know that it has started up. This is
          only relevant if the application itself tries  to  startup  gpbs
          (which means gpbs was not started at session login).

   --daemon
          starts gpbs as a daemon - mostly this means that all output gets
          sent to syslog rather than the terminal.

   --no-fork
          does not fork a separate process

   --verbose
          makes bs his logging more verbose

DIAGNOSTICS

   gdomap -L GNUstepGSPasteboardServer will lookup instances of gpbs.

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

BUGS

   Versions  of  gpbs  up to (including) 1.7.2 have problems with copy and
   paste of mulit-lingual text, as it used the  atom  XA_STRING  alone  to
   exchange  string  data  between  X  clients (and thus GNUstep clients).
   This  means  gpbs  is  inherently  unable  to  do  cut-and-paste   with
   characters other than ISO Latin1 ones, TAB, and NEWLINE.

SEE ALSO

   gdnc(1), gdomap(8), GNUstep(7) xinit(1) wmaker(1)

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

HISTORY

   Work on gdnc started August 1997.

   This manual page first appeared in gnustep-back 0.8.8 (July 2003).

AUTHORS

   gpbs was written by Richard Frith-McDonald <rfm@gnu.org>

   This   man   page   was   written   by   Martin   Brecher   <martin@mb-
   itconsulting.com>    with    contributions   from   Kazunobu   Kuriyama
   <kazunobu.kuriyama@nifty.com>.

   This man page was updated September 2006 by Dennis Leeuw  (dleeuw@made-
   it.com) with notes by Adam Fedor (fedor@doc.com).

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