Discovering the package of an open window

[Martin Pitt]

Michael Spencer [2013-01-18 10:39 -0600]:
> 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.

That's by and large how I do it, although dpkg -S /path/to/program
doesn't require apt-file to be installed.

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

That's actually correct. LibreOffice is really by and large one big
binary with different "modes" for Writer, etc., and it is indeedn
libreoffice-core which ships /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin.

Martin

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