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).