Hello,

I dont understand why timeshift will not start via the gui (Plasma: KDE) or via the Terminal command sudo timeshift, yet will start via the following command:
sudo timeshift-gtk

Surely they point to the same path, and Timeshift is in /usr/bin

Can anyone explain?

Thanks

what commands are you using for the two prior to the sudo timeshift-gtk? If they are not the same then how can one expect for it to work by a different means when it requires the one that you see does work?

when a program is written, the programmer gives it a name to be used in order to start it. the only way that can be changed is to manually change the program name, or give it an alias then call it by that means.

the added gtk to the name for me is something I'd put there to indicate to the user that it is a gtk front end program. Some programs have cli and gtk so they separate them by adding the gtk to the program name.

Prior to using sudo timeshift-gtk, I simply clicked on the icon in the Application Launcher (programme did not start). I then tried sudo timeshift (application did not start).

In order to see which commands exist, and what soft links are in place, if any, can you please paste the output from the following command:

as @hydrurga is leading to, look to see what is inside of the Application Launcher file to call it to execute the program, where he's going to the where is it link to executable if anything from the Application Launcher file. Because their has to be a mechanism setup somewhere, somehow to call the actual executable in order for it to match the one that is working.

duplicate of https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ft-4175629602/

Closed per above.