Starting System Settings Components from the Command Line

[Colin Law]

On 23 February 2013 11:37, Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I sometimes connect over SSH to a remote Ubuntu box and I need to show someone seated at the remote machine something or open a specific application for him/her.
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> I'd like to add/remove items from the System Setting menu (under the Cog) - Software Sources, for instance, and I'd like to be able to start the Details app under the System category from the CLI to show the remote user his CPU and RAM info.

Would it not be better to use desktop sharing in that case?

Colin

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> Can someone tell me what's the command to run and how to manipulate the Settings window contents?