---
name: "gpbs"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "gnustep-back-common"
version: "0.32.0-3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/gpbs"
---

# gpbs(1)

GNUstep PasteBoard Server

## 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)](/gdnc/1.md), [gdomap(8)](/gdomap/8.md), [GNUstep(7)](/GNUstep/7.md) [xinit(1)](/xinit/1.md) [wmaker(1)](/wmaker/1.md)

*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).