How to list gnome-control-center panel names?

Question

There's an (as far as I can tell) undocumented feature of gnome-control-center which can be used to show a specific panel directly. For example, gnome-control-center sound will display the "Sound" panel. I've been trying to figure out what the "Keyboard Layout" panel is called, without success:

gnome-control-center keyboard # Just the "Typing" and "Shortcuts" tabs
gnome-control-center layout # Not found
gnome-control-center keyboardlayout # Not found
gnome-control-center 'keyboard layout' # Not found

Where can I find the list of panel names to use with this command?

Solution 1

If you have 3.8 installed a new feature is available which makes finding out the panel names a lot quicker, this was added in the 3.8 branch only, as of 01-10-2013, for reference this is the commit that added the feature:

(g-c-c) Add --list command-line option

gnome-control-center -l

which will give the following with a list.

Available panels:
background
bluetooth
color
datetime
display
info
keyboard
mouse
network
notifications
online-accounts
power
printers
privacy
region
search
sharing
sound
universal-access
user-accounts
wacom

Solution 2

I think what you want is gnome-control-center region; that should launch the keyboard layout and regional language settings.

Further below is the full listing of individual gnome-control-center commands that are used to launch the various settings panels. It has been found by checking off ones I knew against the source code (although dpkg -L gnome-control-center might also be useful).

You can download the source code with

apt-get source gnome-control-center

Now, when you examine it you will see there is a desktop file in each folder in gnome-control-center-3.4.2/panels/ that has an exec line. As an example, /wacom/gnome-wacom-panel.desktop.in contains the line: Exec=gnome-control-center wacom.

Complete list for reference (most are easily guessable, but I list here for completeness)

1) Wacom Graphics Tablet ---> gnome-control-center wacom

2) Keyboard Layout ---> gnome-control-center region

3) User Accounts ---> gnome-control-center user-accounts

4) Keyboard Shortcuts ---> gnome-control-center keyboard

5) Universal Access ---> gnome-control-center universal-access

6) Sound Volume/events (Unity only) ---> gnome-control-center sound-nua

7) Sound Volume/events ---> gnome-control-center sound

(see also gnome-sound-applet for desktop volume control)

8) Screen brightness and lock ---> gnome-control-center screen

9) Printers ---> gnome-control-center printers

10) Power Management ---> gnome-control-center power

11) Network settings ---> gnome-control-center network

12) Mouse and touchpad ---> gnome-control-center mouse

13) System Information ---> gnome-control-center info

14) Displays ---> gnome-control-center display

15) Date and Time ---> gnome-control-center datetime

16) Color management ---> gnome-control-center color

17) Bluetooth ---> gnome-control-center bluetooth

18) Desktop background ---> gnome-control-center background

19) Language (this is slightly different) ---> gnome-language-selector

(but also see gnome-control-center region for some language settings.

For more information, see man gnome-control-center and the official site.

Comments

[l0b0]

Doesn't work on Ubuntu 12.10. -1 until explained.

[l300lvl]

Well it could be that feature wasn't implemented until 3.8 but I found the string using gnome-control-center --help I have updated the answer accordingly.

[l0b0]

The only reference I could find to this option on Google refer back to this page, so I'll just have to wait until 3.8 is available to test it.

[l300lvl]

As we suspected, this is only available in 3.8. I apologize if I caused confusion but there isn't a huge man page on g-c-c. I will update my answer again. For reference, here is the commit indicating when this feature was added, gnome-control-center --list command line option