On 08/02/2017 02:12 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: > There's a program that i have on my system whose name i cannot find in > the Applications menu. > > However, that might just be because i conducted a defective search. > > So i'm wondering if there's a systematic way to determine if the > program is in the menu. (Presumably it is a matter of looking in > /usr/bin or something like that, although that cannot be the complete > solution as there are a few thousand programs in /usr/bin, and they > cannot all fit in the menu. So i suspect there's a list somewhere . . > . )
The applications list is from .desktop files in various locations in your system, so searching for .desktop files in the packages (with apt-file or dpkg) should work. Try something like 'dpkg -L $package | grep desktop' or 'apt-file search -F $package | grep desktop'. Some applications also generate .desktop files and install themselves in $HOME/.local/share/applications, so look in there as well. Hope it helps.