Re: How do I start the Handbrake GUI?

[David <bouncingcats@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 at 16:55, Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> wrote:

> I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. I recently installed
> Handbrake but can't figure out how to use it.
>
> The issue is that there is no menu entry for it on my Plasma desktop
> menu and the command line program has too many options for me to sort
> through. I was hoping the GUI front end would simplify things.
>
> According to the Debian package page, the handbrake package includes
> "ghb", the GUI front end I am looking for. However neither ghb nor
> handbrake are found on my system. All that I can find/locate are .svg
> and .png files for them.
>
> What am I missing?

Hi,

I do not have Trixie but, as a point of comparison, in my Bookworm
system, the LXDE desktop toolbar (provided by lxpanel) application start
menu is activated to appear by an

  lxpanelctl menu

command, and navigating that menu finds the handbrake menu entry at

  Sound & Video > Handbrake

One thing that you are missing is that there are better ways to investigate
your issue than using 'find' or 'locate'.

Can you share how does your output of the below commands compare with mine?

$ apt list --installed handbrake
Listing... Done
handbrake/stable,now 1.6.1+ds1-1 amd64 [installed]
$ type ghb
ghb is /usr/bin/ghb
$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/ghb
handbrake: /usr/bin/ghb
$

When I run 'ghb' command in a GUI terminal emulator, 'handbrake' starts
exactly the same as if I use the application start menu mentioned above.