In XFCE, I wan't able to drag a menu item from the applications menu onto the desktop per @Graeme's nifty trick. Grepping around, I found the application menu items are all defined in /usr/share/applications/*.desktop
. Grepping that dir for e.g. Name[en_GB]=Screenshot
(I suspect that the en_US is just the entry with no langtag: Name=Screenshot
), I found that xfce4-screenshooter.desktop
has Exec=xfce4-screenshooter
. Sure enough, /bin/xfce4-screenshooter
was in my path and strongly resembled what I got when I clicked the button.
Voila, a solution at one point in time for one window manager, but the dir /usr/share/applications/
gives me some hope that it will apply to multiple versions of multiple window managers. Good luck out there.