0

I sometimes run into an issue where I try to run an app from the GNOME menu and nothing happens - the app name appears in the upper left and the spinny cursor comes up for a bit, but the application never launches.

I want to try to troubleshoot what is happening by running the same command, whatever it is, from the command line, to see what the output is. But I don't know what command is being run. If I right click on the icon in the menu, I see a "Show Details" option. But it doesn't work the way I expect - it takes me to the software center, which sometimes isn't even right because it's not there. But in no case does it actually give me a clue as to what the command line is that it is invoking.

Where can I find this information?

update: I found a related question which got me the information - I found that "menulibre" was already installed by default. It didn't solve my initial problem though, because the command ran find from the command line.

Michael
  • 1,135
  • Does this help? https://askubuntu.com/questions/1072170/find-likely-processes-based-on-snapshot-in-time – WinEunuuchs2Unix Aug 25 '20 at 17:27
  • @WinEunuuchs2Unix It looks like they are running ps 20 times/second. I'm not sure the command being run is sticking around long enough to even show up in ps at that rate. – Michael Aug 25 '20 at 17:41
  • the one used to lock this q is more interesting: we still all have a menu editor that holds the info you need. – Rinzwind Aug 25 '20 at 17:54
  • FYI that was my Q&A and sleep(.05) can be changed to sleep(.01) for 100 times per second. – WinEunuuchs2Unix Aug 25 '20 at 19:42

0 Answers0