Discovering the package of an open window

[Michael Spencer]

On 01/18/2013 10:54 AM, Martin Pitt wrote:
> 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
>
Okay, that makes sense. What I'm trying to do is identify the package
and then access the Launchpad entry for the package. But for example,
Libreoffice seems to lump all the libreoffice packages into one
Launchpad entry, https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice. Is
there an easy way to find the Launchpad entry for a particular package?

Thanks,

-- 
Michael Spencer

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