gpbs1

Usage

Overview

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.