Discovering the package of an open window

Michael Spencer spencers1993 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 18 16:39:29 UTC 2013


What is the best way to discover the package a program is in by clicking
on an open window?

So far I've been using xprop to get the PID of the window, reading where
/proc/<PID>/exe points too, and then running apt-file search on that.

However, for some programs, like LibreOffice Writer, I get
libreoffice-core, not libreoffice-writer.

For the program I'm writing, Contributor Console (written in python),
the executable is /usr/bin/python2.7, even though I launched it with the
command contributor-console.

So, what is the best way to accurately discover the package a program is
in by clicking on an open window?

Thank you,

-- 
Michael Spencer

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