man oafd (Commandes) - the GNOME Object Activation Daemon.

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oafd - the GNOME Object Activation Daemon.

oafd [options]

The oafd daemon provides a simple naming-service wrapper for GNOME applicatinos that are using CORBA, Orbit, OAF and/or Bonobo.

oafd is normally started automatically when the gnome desktop is started.

--ac-activate: Serve as an ActivationContext (default is as an ObjectDirectory only)
--ior-output-fd=FD: File descriptor to write IOR to
--od-domain=DOMAIN: Domain of ObjectDirectory
--od-source-dir=DIRECTORY: Directory to read .oafinfo files from

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