Opening a set of apps

[Maxime Alarie]

Noop,

I am just curious..  I never used the locate program,  is it better than
find?

I would have used find / -type f  *.desktop  | more

Thanks.

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[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of NoOp
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 5:22 PM
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Opening a set of apps

On 05/04/2010 03:06 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
...
> I decided to see if I could find any actual .desktop files on my
system.
> 
> jfb at jfb-ubuntu64:~$ locate *.desktop
> /etc/skel/examples.desktop
> /home/jfb/examples.desktop
...

Remove the asterisk, but use '| more' as you're going to get a "lot" of
output :-)

$ locate .desktop | more

Use the spacebar to go to the next page.

You might also:

$ ls ~/.local/share/applications
$cd ~/.local/share/applications
$ cat <appname>.desktop
example for the last:
:~/.local/share/applications$ cat seahorse.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Passwords and Encryption Keys
Comment=Manage your passwords and encryption keys
Exec=seahorse
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=seahorse
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Security;Utility;
StartupNotify=true
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Bugzilla=GNOME
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Product=seahorse
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Component=general
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Version=2.26.1
X-GNOME-DocPath=seahorse/seahorse.xml
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=seahorse


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