On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 12:45 -0600, Josh Trutwin wrote: > Does anyone know if a log entry is created anywhere when a user launches > an application from the gnome menu so I can gauge how much certain > applications are used? Yes I have to worry about launched from a > terminal as well but many users don't know what a console is. > I don't have any idea myself but perhaps you could watch running processes and track the PIDs and users to identify when a new instance has started. If there is no such tracking data already available you could add a little wrapper around the programs to include some accounting function like updating a record in a DB or writing a log or something.