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).