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.
HTH
Linux-Fan