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## Initializing Applications and Starting Programs

gnome-program — Initialize and retrieve information about a GNOME application.
gnome-init — Functions used during initialisation of libgnome and other platform libraries.
gnome-exec — Execution of programs from within GNOME applications.

The functions in this section provide the necesary tools to both initialise your own application and to start other applications in the background.