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On Mate systems, many programs correspond to (and are sometimes forks of) other programs with more well-known names:

  • nautilus -> caja
  • gnome-terminal -> mate-terminal
  • ark -> engrampa
  • gedit -> pluma

Sometimes I get lucky and just replace gnome with mate. Sometimes I have to resort to opening a file through a GUI and play games with xprop or rely on the help menu to find which command was actually called. Other times I get lucky on Google and get some random list.

Is there some command line trick I don't know about to get the name of these Mate programs?

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I'm afraid not. Most Linux distributions provide some set of basic utility programs - graphical text editor, image viewer, file manager, window manager, terminal emulator, and so on. While some of these programs' names could be possible to get rather easily, if you are checking this on somebody's system and not a fresh install, you can never be sure, since they might have changed default applications.

Well, nevertheless, you might check default applications:

cat /usr/share/applications/defaults.list

I guess that Mate should have something like this too. You could then grep or sed to find out what programs are begin used.

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