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.\"     Title: gvfsd
.\"    Author: Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com>
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.\"      Date: 03/28/2017
.\"    Manual: User Commands
.\"    Source: gvfs
.\"  Language: English
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.TH "GVFSD" "1" "" "gvfs" "User Commands"
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.SH "NAME"
gvfsd \- Main daemon for gvfs
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.HP \w'\fBgvfsd\fR\ 'u
\fBgvfsd\fR [OPTION...]
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
\fBgvfsd\fR
is the main daemon for the gvfs virtual filesystem\&. It provides the
\fIorg\&.gtk\&.vfs\&.Daemon\fR
name on the session bus\&. gvfsd is autostarted by GIO clients if it is not running\&.
.PP
The primary task of
\fBgvfsd\fR
is to act as a mount tracker/manager\&. It spawns new backends when requested and keeps track fo their lifecycle, maintaining a list of active mounts and creates direct connections to them\&.
.PP
Since gvfs backends are running as children of the gvfsd process, it is possible to start gvfsd in a terminal and set environment variables to get debug output from individual backends\&.
.PP
\fBgvfsd\fR
also starts the
\fBgvfsd-fuse\fR(1), and provides it the mount point where the fuse file system should be mounted\&.
.SH "OPTIONS"
.PP
\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
.RS 4
Prints a short help text and exits\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-\-version\fR
.RS 4
Shows the version number and exits\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-r\fR, \fB\-\-replace\fR
.RS 4
Replace the currently running gvfsd instance\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-\-no\-fuse\fR
.RS 4
Don\*(Aqt start the fuse filesystem\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-debug\fR
.RS 4
Enable debug output\&.
.RE
.SH "ENVIRONMENT"
.PP
\fBGVFS_DISABLE_FUSE\fR
.RS 4
If this environment variable is set, gvfsd will not start the fuse filesystem\&.
.RE
.SH "EXIT STATUS"
.PP
On success 0 is returned, a non\-zero failure code otherwise\&.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.PP
\fBgvfs\fR(8),
\fBgvfsd-fuse\fR(1)