Is there a way to view what my programs are doing in the background in linux?

[ClassicNoob]

I want to see what all my programs are doing so that I can learn the commands they run.

For example I when I press the update button on my gui package manager It initiates a prompt for sudo password; I want to know what commands are run in the background to make that prompt happen.

[AkIonSight]

31 minutes ago, ClassicNoob said:

I want to see what all my programs are doing so that I can learn the commands they run.

For example I when I press the update button on my gui package manager It initiates a prompt for sudo password; I want to know what commands are run in the background to make that prompt happen.

Good question and tbh you dont need to look at bg programs for this, maybe just look at the src code, hey, everything is open source remember

[AkIonSight]

Also just open KSysGuard for KDE and System monitor for gnome if you want to look at running processes

[C2dan88]

The command to display password prompt for sudo is kdesudo or kdesu

 

 

if you want to display a custom dialog you can use kdedialog

https://develop.kde.org/deploy/kdialog/

[Sauron]

GUI package managers are exceptional in that they are frontends for CLI programs and do start some CLI processes in the background; this is not true of all GUI programs. If you want to learn how to use the CLI package manager you'll be much better served reading a guide or wiki, or at worst a man page. Stuff like the password prompt can be launched from the command line as mentioned by @C2dan88, but don't be mislead into thinking most programs work by executing bash commands.