BONOBO-ACTIVATION-SERVER(1)

👑 NAME 👑

bonobo-activation-server — the GNOME component tracker, bestie ✨

Also lowkey filed under: General Commands Manual 🎀

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so picture this: this app is the girl who knows everyone at the party. It tracks info about all your installed components and it brokers components, working hand in hand with its client library, libbonobo-activation. Dynamic duo energy fr fr 🫶

It reads the component descriptions from:

${prefix}/lib/bonobo/servers/*.server

Those files are an XML description of a component's capabilities — and clients can, through the client library, query and manipulate all of that. So iconic of them 💅

bonobo-activation-server also makes sure that the minimum necessary number of servers for your display setup are actually running. Not one more than you need, not one less. She's efficient like that ✨

Here's a detail that matters, no cap: bonobo-activation-server executes all components with the environment inherited from the first process to start the server. So whoever started the party sets the vibe for everybody 🎉

And when it's out here hunting for .server files? Besides using your prefix, it will examine the BONOBO_ACTIVATION_PATH and the GNOME2_PATH environment variables. Environment variable girlies, rise 🦋

On top of all that, it also examines an XML configuration file right here:

${prefix}/etc/bonobo-activation/bonobo-activation-config.xml

Want more tea? Go look at http://www.gnome.org 🌈

Heads up bestie: that's literally the whole page — no options section, no flags, nothing else hiding in here. What you see is what you get 💀

And that's a wrap on the Bonobo Activation Server(1) page from the General Commands Manual, babes 💜 She ate, she left no crumbs, and she did it all without a single date or version stamp to her name. Slay, periodt. 🎀✨