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
> > 
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