1MC-WAIT-FOR-NAME(1)                Utilities               MC-WAIT-FOR-NAME(1)
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NAME

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

9       mc-wait-for-name WELL-KNOWN-NAME
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11       [D-BUS Service]
12       Name=org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Client.Something
13       Exec=/usr/bin/mc-wait-for-name org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Client.Something
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DESCRIPTION

16       mc-wait-for-name  runs  until  a  bus name appears, then exits success‐
17       fully. This can be used as a service-activation helper for a  bus  name
18       that  is  not  directly activatable, but will be provided automatically
19       (after a while) by the desktop session.
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EXIT STATUS

22       0      The bus name eventually appeared.
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24       64 (EX_USAGE)
25              Invocation error (too many or too few arguments, or the bus name
26              given was not a syntactically valid well-known bus name).
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28       69 (EX_UNAVAILABLE)
29              mc-wait-for-name was unable to connect to the session bus.
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32              The name did not appear within a reasonable time.
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OPTIONS

35       There are no additional command-line options.
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BUGS

38       The "reasonable time" to wait is currently hard-coded.
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42Telepathy                          July 2009               MC-WAIT-FOR-NAME(1)