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How can I find the equivalent terminal command of some program I started from the GUI? For example, I open the start menu, go to accessories, and start the image viewer. Is there a way to find the equivalent terminal command for that action?

c-x-berger
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Right click the menu entry, select properties.

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Select the Desktop Entry tab, command shows the terminal command, in this case 'gpicview'.

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CoderMike
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    Nice succinct answer but can I suggest you clarify that, from this example, the %f is not part of the command that you might try running on the terminal but rather expanded to a filename by the menu entry. Other options are listed here https://developer.gnome.org/integration-guide/stable/desktop-files.html.en#commandline – Roger Jones Jan 25 '19 at 09:48