---
name: "mc-wait-for-name"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "telepathy-mission-control"
version: "5.16.6-4"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/mc-wait-for-name"
---

# mc-wait-for-name(1)

run until a D-Bus name appears on the session bus

## NAME

mc-wait-for-name - run until a D-Bus name appears on the session bus

## SYNOPSIS

**mc-wait-for-name** *WELL-KNOWN-NAME*

```
[D-BUS Service]
Name=org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Client.Something
Exec=/usr/bin/mc-wait-for-name org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Client.Something
```

## DESCRIPTION

**mc-wait-for-name** runs until a bus name appears, then exits successfully. This can be used as a service-activation helper for a bus name that is not directly activatable, but will be provided automatically (after a while) by the desktop session.

## EXIT STATUS

- 0

  The bus name eventually appeared.

- 64 (EX\_USAGE)

  Invocation error (too many or too few arguments, or the bus name given was not a syntactically valid well-known bus name).

- 69 (EX\_UNAVAILABLE)

  mc-wait-for-name was unable to connect to the session bus.

- 75 (EX\_TEMPFAIL)

  The name did not appear within a reasonable time.

## OPTIONS

There are no additional command-line options.

## BUGS

The "reasonable time" to wait is currently hard-coded.