[xubuntu-users] From Kubuntu to Xubuntu but what's what?...

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:34:30 -0500
"Joe(theWordy)Philbrook" <jtwdyp at ttlc.net> wrote:

> 
> > There is very good documentation for Xubuntu. It is accessed by
> > Applications -> Help. There is also documentation provided with most
> > applications. 
> 
> I'm glad to here that. I wonder, does xubuntu's help make it easy to
> discover the actual command line name of any applications that may be
> displayed in the menu by a label that doesn't fit. IE in some menu
> systems open office is displayed as "OpenOffice.org" whereas I have to
> just know that at the command line I want to type "ooffice"... 
> 
> Thanks again for the reply.
> 

You can always look in /usr/share/applications for the menu item, open
the file in mousepad, and read what the "exec=" says the executable
file is.

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