Questions about Fedora 16 XFCE spin

[ta12121]

Hi,

1. How can I tell what executable is launched by an item in the application menu? Analogous to right clicking on an item in the Start menu in Windows and looking at the shortcut properties.

2. How do I configure the Gnome Display Manager? I want it to use the external monitor for my laptop if there is one connected. The GDM configurator does not appear anywhere in the Applications menu.

Thanks for any help.

[PabloTwo]

There are a few ways to snoop out the command name that launches a program. In many cases, it's the same same as the package that installed it, but in other cases, the package name and the actual executable name don't share much in common.

Method 1: launch the program from the menu. Then run "top" in a terminal. I used "audacious" as an example:

Tasks: 123 total,   1 running, 122 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  1.3%us,  0.7%sy,  0.0%ni, 98.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   2063212k total,  1102356k used,   960856k free,    89824k buffers
Swap:  4128764k total,        0k used,  4128764k free,   653732k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND                                                              
 1028 root      20   0 94480  17m 9324 S  0.7  0.9   2:11.54 Xorg                                                                 
 1737 paul      20   0  506m 169m  31m S  0.7  8.4   8:17.32 firefox                                                              
 1652 paul      20   0  111m  13m 9.9m S  0.3  0.7   0:02.23 Terminal                                                             
 3512 paul      20   0  250m  21m  11m S  0.3  1.1   0:00.43 audacious                                                            
 3527 paul      20   0  3800 1192  912 R  0.3  0.1   0:00.13 top                                                                  
    1 root      20   0 16768  14m 2044 S  0.0  0.7   0:01.96 systemd

No surprise here, the package name that installed audacious was "audacious", the binary executable (shown under the Command column in top) is "audacious", and the menu item name is "Audacious".

Method 2: If you know the name of the rpm package that installed the program, you could use rpm and grep to find the executable(s):

[paul@CarCrusher ~]$ rpm -ql audacious | grep bin/
/usr/bin/audacious
/usr/bin/audtool

Method 3: Identify the *.desktop file in /usr/share/applicationns/ that is associated with the program and examine it, or grep it:

[paul@CarCrusher ~]$ ls /usr/share/applications/ | grep audacious
audacious.desktop
audacious-ffaudio.desktop
livna-audacious-aac.desktop
livna-audacious-mp3.desktop
[paul@CarCrusher ~]$ grep -i Exec /usr/share/applications/audacious.desktop
Exec=audacious %U
TryExec=audacious

Then there is just:

[paul@CarCrusher ~]$ which audacious
/usr/bin/audacious

I can't help you with your second question.