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).