How can I run LibreOffice Writer from the command line? Basically, what is its command and how do I get to know what's the command to run a particular application in general?
How can I run LibreOffice Writer from the command line? Basically, what is its command and how do I get to know what's the command to run a particular application in general?
Run libreoffice --writer
to start LibreOffice Writer.
In this case, I guessed that it might be libreoffice
or similar, so I entered libre
in a terminal and pressed tab twice. libreoffice
was one of the options, so I ran that. It started something from which one could choose to go to Writer, Calc, Impress, etc. Since you asked specifically about Writer, I looked at man libreoffice
, which mentions -writer
as one of the command line options. Running libreoffice -writer
worked but resulted in
$ libreoffice -writer
Warning: -writer is deprecated. Use --writer instead.
And so I got to libreoffice --writer
.
In general, one could try things like the following:
ps aux | grep guessed_name
.X
, run dpkg -L X
. It will list installed files from package X
, look for /usr/bin
, /bin
, /sbin
, etc in the output.One can find out the process corresponding to a window as follows :
Run xprop _NET_WM_PID
, navigate to the target window (without clicking!), and click on it. This will print the PID corresponding to the window, for example
_NET_WM_PID(CARDINAL) = 7394
Now run ps -p 7394
(with 7394 replaced by the PID you got) to find out the process name for the given PID.