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E-Rick
Asked: 2020-09-28 00:15:57 +0800 CST 2020-09-28 00:15:57 +0800 CST

How do I find the command that fires an application?

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Let's say for example that I want 'system monitor' to fire at a certain time. I would go to crontab and.... What name do I put? It has happened to me more than once that I have needed to know the command that triggered an application and I have had to dive a lot on the internet to find out. I am looking for a more general solution, somewhere in the OS I will be able to see the command that launches an application that I have installed in my OS!! Nope?

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    I have found a solution, but I hope to find a better, more generic one.

    It consists of looking at the properties of the process that is being executed, in my case the ones that the Linix-mint system monitor shows me.

    This works for me for linux-mint and it's a good starting point for other cases but it's not exactly what I was looking for.

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  2. Another solution that I just found is to look in /usr/share/applications where you usually put the launchers, once you have to look for the name that you think may be the launcher of the application you are looking for. For example: I have executed

    find -name '*monit*

    and i found

    ./gnome-system-monitor-kde.desktop
./gnome-system-monitor.desktop

    and from then on there is trial and error.

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