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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 sys-
       tems 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 charac-
       ters 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).

GNUstep 							  September 2006							   GPBS(1)