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I just spenttook frustratingly too long to find out that the binary for the "gnome-console" package is called "kgx".

Hence, my question:

Assuming that I know the name of an installed package from pacman, is there a general way to find the name of its binary that can be used to launch the application?

For context:

I knew that my default Arch GNOME installation provided a terminal emulator from the GUI. In the GUI, it was named "Console". So I queried pacman via pacman -Qs console. Which returned:

local/gnome-console 47.1-1 (gnome)
    A simple user-friendly terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop

However, gnome-console was not within the known namespace of my terminal. Hence, I knew that the actual binary must have a different name. At this point, my knowledge ended, and I had to search the internet (for somehow way too long) until I stumbled over an old comment on Reddit mentioning that the binary is actually called "kgx" instead.

I assume there is a better way to do this than hope that somebody "onon the internet"internet knows the name of the binary that you are looking for.

I just spent frustratingly too long to find out that the binary for the "gnome-console" package is called "kgx".

Hence, my question:

Assuming that I know the name of an installed package from pacman, is there a general way to find the name of its binary that can be used to launch the application?

For context:

I knew that my default Arch GNOME installation provided a terminal emulator from the GUI. In the GUI, it was named "Console". So I queried pacman via pacman -Qs console. Which returned:

local/gnome-console 47.1-1 (gnome)
    A simple user-friendly terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop

However, gnome-console was not within the known namespace of my terminal. Hence, I knew that the actual binary must have a different name. At this point, my knowledge ended, and I had to search the internet (for somehow way too long) until I stumbled over an old comment on Reddit mentioning that the binary is actually called "kgx" instead.

I assume there is a better way to do this than hope that somebody "on the internet" knows the name of the binary that you are looking for.

I just took frustratingly long to find out that the binary for the "gnome-console" package is called "kgx".

Hence, my question:

Assuming that I know the name of an installed package from pacman, is there a general way to find the name of its binary that can be used to launch the application?

For context:

I knew that my default Arch GNOME installation provided a terminal emulator from the GUI. In the GUI, it was named "Console". So I queried pacman via pacman -Qs console. Which returned:

local/gnome-console 47.1-1 (gnome)
    A simple user-friendly terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop

However, gnome-console was not within the known namespace of my terminal. Hence, I knew that the actual binary must have a different name. At this point, my knowledge ended, and I had to search the internet (for somehow way too long) until I stumbled over an old comment on Reddit mentioning that the binary is actually called "kgx" instead.

I assume there is a better way to do this than hope that somebody on the internet knows the name of the binary that you are looking for.

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How to find the name of the binary used to launch an application installed with pacman?

I just spent frustratingly too long to find out that the binary for the "gnome-console" package is called "kgx".

Hence, my question:

Assuming that I know the name of an installed package from pacman, is there a general way to find the name of its binary that can be used to launch the application?

For context:

I knew that my default Arch GNOME installation provided a terminal emulator from the GUI. In the GUI, it was named "Console". So I queried pacman via pacman -Qs console. Which returned:

local/gnome-console 47.1-1 (gnome)
    A simple user-friendly terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop

However, gnome-console was not within the known namespace of my terminal. Hence, I knew that the actual binary must have a different name. At this point, my knowledge ended, and I had to search the internet (for somehow way too long) until I stumbled over an old comment on Reddit mentioning that the binary is actually called "kgx" instead.

I assume there is a better way to do this than hope that somebody "on the internet" knows the name of the binary that you are looking for.