how to find the command line name of a program

Sat, Aug 4, 2018

locate -b pomodoro | grep bin

(The program i was looking for the ‘machine name’ of was the Pomodoro Timer and this gave it right away as /usr/bin/gnome-pomodoro, where gnome-pomodoro is the name of program.)

An interesting sidepath that did not result in anything useful

I was sort of thinking there might be an equivalent to xkill that instead just gives the info on the window you click on… hmm now that i phrase it that way, and indeed in man xkill (after a lot of text discouraging you from ever using xkill, or at least avoiding its more dangerous options) comes the SEE ALSO list with xwininfo.

$ xwininfo

xwininfo: Please select the window about which you
          would like information by clicking the
          mouse in that window.

xwininfo: Window id: 0x3600008 "Pomodoro Timer"

  Absolute upper-left X:  -8
  Absolute upper-left Y:  88
  Relative upper-left X:  -8
  Relative upper-left Y:  88
  Width: 1000
  Height: 1472
  Depth: 32
  Visual: 0x19e
  Visual Class: TrueColor
  Border width: 0
  Class: InputOutput
  Colormap: 0x3600007 (not installed)
  Bit Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
  Window Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
  Backing Store State: NotUseful
  Save Under State: no
  Map State: IsViewable
  Override Redirect State: no
  Corners:  +-8+88  -2848+88  -2848-600  +-8-600
  -geometry 0x86+-8+88