On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 21:58 -0500, Jon Schewe wrote: > Are you perhaps thinking of strace? It prints out all of the system > calls being used. No, I have seen something higher-level than strace. Strace would give me the system calls, etc.; I think I have seen a utility that captures only the initial command event -- for example, which parameters are issued along with 'evolution' to bring up one's particular profile. > On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 21:39 -0500, John Reese wrote: > > Years ago I saw a utility that printed out commands issued during GUI > > events. For example, starting Evolution in the GUI environment resulted > > in a flurry of commands registered in the shell. Very handy. > > > > Now I am switching window managers and am having trouble managing the > > behavior of some applications. > > > > Does anybody know/remember a utility of this nature? > > > > John Reese > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Jon Schewe | http://mtu.net/~jpschewe > GPG signature at http://mtu.net/~jpschewe/gpg.sig.html > For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels > nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any > powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all > creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that > is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39 > > >