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Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA

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On 2018-10-07 20:12, Linux-Fan wrote:
> 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

thank you for these useful tips.
for me I wouldn't mind a text file that was updated when software was 
installed with a desktop item to show its actual run command and perhaps 
a brief description of what its purpose is.


mick

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Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-10-07 15:20 +0200
  Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-10-07 16:00 +0200
    Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-10-07 16:20 +0200
      Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-10-07 16:30 +0200
        Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-10-08 15:50 +0200
          Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-10-08 17:50 +0200
            Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-10-08 22:30 +0200
              Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-10-08 22:50 +0200
            Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-10-09 17:20 +0200
              Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-10-09 18:30 +0200
      Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-10-07 17:10 +0200
  Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-10-07 16:40 +0200
    Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-10-07 20:30 +0200
      Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2018-10-07 20:50 +0200
        Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2018-10-07 21:20 +0200
          Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-10-07 22:00 +0200
          Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2018-10-07 23:10 +0200
      Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA Dominic Knight <dominicknight@gmx.com> - 2018-10-07 21:40 +0200
        Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-10-07 22:00 +0200
          Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-10-08 00:00 +0200

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