.TH "Bonobo Activation Server" "1"
.SH "NAME"
.LP 
bonobo-activation-server \- The bonobo activation server, for tracking components.
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.LP 
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 \fBhttp://www.gnome.org\fR.