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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).