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How to know the corresponding command line cmd for the UI click?

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Mar 15, 20262898 views
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I can click the "movie player" from the GUI of Ubuntu, but how could I know the corresponding command line cmd. I want to run the movie player from commmand line. And this is not only about the background command for the movie player, I want to know all the actual command that was run by the x-wind…

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open the console and enter ps --sort start_time x this should give you a list of active processes, sorted by starting time, with the most recent process at the bottom. For example, I've just started Firefox and got this: Of course is always the most…

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