Names of binaries

[Volker Wysk]

Am Mittwoch, den 26.05.2021, 17:33 +0100 schrieb Peter Flynn:
> Typically, in a GUI system interface, there is a "dock" or "panel" or
> something with an icon for every user application that is executing.
> 
> Most of these are the result of the user having clicked on a menu entry
> or a desktop icon.
> 
> Is there a way to find the name and location of the actual binary of the
> application. I know you can list all processes with ps, but many
> applications are run from a shell script, which calls a language
> processor, which fires up a stub, which finally causes the app to run,
> and sorting them out from ps ax can be tricky.

You could search through the .desktop files in /usr/share/applications. Do
an "egrep <menu-entry> *.desktop". In the matching .desktop file(s) there is
the "Exec:" line, which specifies the name of the executable.

Cheers,
Volker
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