Bonobo Activation Server(1)

NAME

bonobo-activation-server - The bonobo activation server, for tracking components.

DESCRIPTION

This application tracks information about installed components and brokers components, in conjunction with it's client library; libbonobo-activation.

It reads the component descriptions from ${prefix}/lib/bonobo/servers/*.server, these files provide an XML description of a components capabilities which can be queried and manipulated by clients from the client library.

Bonobo-activation-server, also ensures that the minimum neccessary number of servers for your display setup are running.

Bonobo-activation-server executes all components with the environment inherited from the first process to start the server. In addition to using your prefix, it will examine the BONOBO_ACTIVATION_PATH and GNOME2_PATH environment variables find .server files.

In addition it examines an XML configuration file in ${prefix}/etc/bonobo-activation/bonobo-activation-config.xml

For more information see http://www.gnome.org.