mick crane writes:
On 2018-10-07 19:23, Brian wrote:On Sun 07 Oct 2018 at 15:33:09 +0100, Brian wrote:On Sun 07 Oct 2018 at 08:14:05 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:Does gparted run from a terminal?It does? A missing menu entry is hardly a show-stopper.I never made a menu entry, it looks a bit complicated.The desktop is handy for accessing the software but sometimes it is difficult to start a program say over ssh if you don't know the precise name.A list of the real names of what is on the desktop would be handy.for example I didn't know the file browser thing was called thunar until noticing it somewhere.mick
Hello,there are multiple ways of finding out the program's "real" names, but here are some ideas:
* Use `xprop` and click on a program's window. For instance, if I click on a terminal window, I get (among other things) this output from `xprop`: $ xprop [...] _NET_WM_PID(CARDINAL) = 20886 [...] WM_COMMAND(STRING) = { "/usr/bin/urxvt", "+sb", "+bc", [...] [...] Thus I know the command is `urxvt` and some parameters (one can also try and see what happens without the parameters to check if they are really needed). * Use Help > About menu entries, they at least often have the program's name (which need not be equal to the command but often is). For the `thunar` command, you get ``Thunar 1.6.11'' under Help > About. * Locate the .desktop files of your application (might work for desktop icons in some Desktop Environments). They sometimes have an `Exec=` line which identifies the command used to start the application. HTHLinux-Fan
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