1GPBS(1)                      GNUstep System Manual                     GPBS(1)
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NAME

6       gpbs - GNUstep PasteBoard Server
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SYNOPSIS

9       gpbs
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DESCRIPTION

12       The  gpbs daemon serves as a clipboard/pasteboard for GNUstep programs,
13       handling the copying, cutting and pasting of objects as  well  as  drag
14       and drop operations between applications.
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16       Every user needs to have his own instance of gpbs
17         running.  While  gpbs  will be started automatically as soon as it is
18       needed, it is recommend to start gpbs in a personal login  script  like
19       ~/.bashrc  or  ~/.cshrc.   Alternatively  you can launch gpbs when your
20       windowing system or the window manager is started. For example, on sys‐
21       tems with X11 you can launch gpbs from your .xinitrc script or alterna‐
22       tively - if you are running Window Maker - put  it  in  Window  Maker's
23       autostart  script.   See  the  GNUstep Build Guide for a sample startup
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OPTIONS

27       -NSHost <hostname>
28              attaches gpbs to a remote session.
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31       --GSStartupNotification
32              sends a notification through the NSDistributedNotificationCenter
33              (i.e.   gdnc)  so that apps know that it has started up. This is
34              only relevant if the application itself tries  to  startup  gpbs
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37       --daemon
38              starts gpbs as a daemon - mostly this means that all output gets
39              sent to syslog rather than the terminal.
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41       --no-fork
42              does not fork a separate process
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44       --verbose
45              makes bs his logging more verbose
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DIAGNOSTICS

49       gdomap -L GNUstepGSPasteboardServer will lookup instances of gpbs.
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51       Alternatively, gdomap -N will list all registered names  on  the  local
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BUGS

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

62       gdnc(1), gdomap(8), GNUstep(7) xinit(1) wmaker(1)
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64       The  GNUstep  Build Guide example startup script: <http://gnustep.made-
65       it.com/BuildGuide/index.html#GNUSTEP.SERVICES>
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HISTORY

68       Work on gdnc started August 1997.
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70       This manual page first appeared in gnustep-back 0.8.8 (July 2003).
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AUTHORS

73       gpbs was written by Richard Frith-McDonald <rfm@gnu.org>
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75       This man page  was  written  by  Martin  Brecher  <martin@mb-itconsult‐
76       ing.com>      with     contributions     from     Kazunobu     Kuriyama
77       <kazunobu.kuriyama@nifty.com>.
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79       This man page was updated September 2006 by Dennis Leeuw  (dleeuw@made-
80       it.com) with notes by Adam Fedor (fedor@doc.com).
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