---
name: "bonobo-activation-server"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "libbonobo2-common"
version: "2.32.1-3"
release: "Debian 9 (Stretch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/bonobo-activation-server"
---

# bonobo-activation-server(1)

GNOME component tracker

## NAME

bonobo-activation-server - GNOME component tracker

## DESCRIPTION

This application tracks information about installed components and brokers components, in conjunction with its 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 the GNOME2\_PATH environment variables to 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**.