Users Guide For UBuntu 12.04

[Jonesy]

On Fri, 3 Aug 2012 08:45:23 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> On 2 August 2012 14:23, Cybe R. Wizard <cyber_wizard at mindspring.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 08:49:56 +0100
>> Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> In the meantime to run an app that is not on the launcher hit the
>>> Windows key, or click the grey Ubuntu icon at the top of the launcher,
>>> to bring up the Dash and type the app name in the Search window.
>>>
>>> Colin
>>
>> ...and if you don't know the name of the package?
>
> Then this is where the Dash really proves its value.  Suppose you want
> a text editor but don't know that it is gedit.  Open the dash and type
> 'text' (without the quotes obviously) and it will show all installed
> apps that may be relevant, including text editor.  

$ apropos editor
atobm (1)            - bitmap editor and converter utilities for the X Window System
audacity (1)         - Graphical cross-platform audio editor
bitmap (1)           - bitmap editor and converter utilities for the X Window System
bluefish (1)         - a powerful WYWIWYG HTML editor
bmtoa (1)            - bitmap editor and converter utilities for the X Window System
ed (1)               - text editor
editor (1)           - Nano's ANOther editor, an enhanced free Pico clone
editres (1)          - a dynamic resource editor for X Toolkit applications
ex (1)               - Vi IMproved, a programmers text editor
fotoxx (1)           - digital photo editor and collection manager
gparted (8)          - Gnome partition editor for manipulating disk partitions.
jfs_debugfs (8)      - shell-type JFS file system editor
khexedit-trinity (1) - KDE hex editor
kimagemapeditor-trinity (1) - an HTML image map editor for KDE
kmenuedit-trinity (1) - editor for the KDE menu
kompozer (1)         - an HTML editor for X11 derived from the Mozilla composer
mp3info (1)          - MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 tag editor
nano (1)             - Nano's ANOther editor, an enhanced free Pico clone
notepad (1)          - Wine text editor
pico (1)             - Nano's ANOther editor, an enhanced free Pico clone
psed (1)             - a stream editor
red (1)              - text editor
regedit (1)          - Wine registry editor
rnano (1)            - Restricted mode for Nano's ANOther editor, an enhanced free Pico clone
rview (1)            - Vi IMproved, a programmers text editor
rvim (1)             - Vi IMproved, a programmers text editor
s2p (1)              - a stream editor
sed (1)              - stream editor for filtering and transforming text
select-editor (1)    - select your default sensible-editor from all installed editors
sensible-editor (1)  - sensible editing, paging, and web browsing
software-properties-gtk (1) - Software Sources List editor
vi (1)               - Vi IMproved, a programmers text editor
view (1)             - Vi IMproved, a programmers text editor
vim (1)              - Vi IMproved, a programmers text editor
vorbistagedit (1)    - allows batch editing of vorbis comments with an editor
winecfg (1)          - Wine Configuration Editor
xedit (1)            - simple text editor for X

Jonesy