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#1 2023-07-07 17:38:14
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change the start command (pacman, yay)
how can i change the command itself to start an application in archlinux?
I only found on google where the configuration files are (/etc/) but it did not help me at all
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#2 2023-07-07 18:20:47
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Re: change the start command (pacman, yay)
You're going to need to be a lot more specific. Do you mean you want to create an alias so you can run `pacman` by typing something like `pac`?
"UNIX is simple and coherent" - Dennis Ritchie; "GNU's Not Unix" - Richard Stallman
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#3 2023-07-07 20:01:58
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Re: change the start command (pacman, yay)
You're going to need to be a lot more specific. Do you mean you want to create an alias so you can run `pacman` by typing something like `pac`?
For example, I downloaded a program, let firefox. Normally, I think running firefox (from GNOM) looks like this:
$ firefox
At this point, I want it to look like this to start firefox (when I click the firefox icon from GNOM):
$ proxychains4 firefox
I could do this from the console every time, but it would be inconvenient
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#4 2023-07-07 20:47:58
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Re: change the start command (pacman, yay)
You want to achieve for proxychains4 something similar to the actions firecfg performs for firejail?
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#5 2023-07-07 21:34:04
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Re: change the start command (pacman, yay)
when I click the firefox icon from GNOM
GNOM? Do you mean GNOME? Which program exactly, a menu, a dock, etc? In any case, if you are referring to an icon in any of those type of GUI launchers, they are almost certainly using the .desktop file - so you'll want to overide the Exec command in that as described here, specifically see sections 5.2 and 5.2.2.
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#6 2023-07-07 21:42:12
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Re: change the start command (pacman, yay)
As long as the starter doesn't use absolute paths, imitating the firecfg approach should be easy enough w/ symlinks to a script that exec /usr/bin/proxychains4 /usr/bin/$(basename $0)
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