Bonobo Activation Server(r)           Bonobo Activation Server(r)



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

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

       It  reads   the   component   descriptions   from   ${pre-
       fix}/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-con-
       fig.xml

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



                                      Bonobo Activation Server(r)