How To Install budgie-window-shuffler on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install budgie-window-shuffler on Debian 11.
What is budgie-window-shuffler
budgie-window-shuffler is:
Budgie-Desktop is a GTK+ based desktop environment which focuses on simplicity and elegance. It provides a traditional desktop metaphor based interface utilising customisable panel based menu driven system. Budgie-Desktop is written from scratch utilising many GNOME based sub-systems such as GNOME-Session and Mutter.
The window shuffler is an easy to use windows tiling capability driven primarily through the keyboard to place and move window in a grid format.
Windows can be easily quarter, half-tiled & maximized. Windows can be moved within a user defined grid and intelligently switches window positions where necessary.
There are three methods to install budgie-window-shuffler on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install budgie-window-shuffler Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install budgie-window-shuffler using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install budgie-window-shuffler
Install budgie-window-shuffler Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install budgie-window-shuffler using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install budgie-window-shuffler
Install budgie-window-shuffler Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install budgie-window-shuffler using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install budgie-window-shuffler
How To Uninstall budgie-window-shuffler on Debian 11
To uninstall only the budgie-window-shuffler package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove budgie-window-shuffler
Uninstall budgie-window-shuffler And Its Dependencies
To uninstall budgie-window-shuffler and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove budgie-window-shuffler
Remove budgie-window-shuffler Configurations and Data
To remove budgie-window-shuffler configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge budgie-window-shuffler
Remove budgie-window-shuffler configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove budgie-window-shuffler configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge budgie-window-shuffler
Dependencies
budgie-window-shuffler have the following dependencies:
- budgie-extras-common
- budgie-extras-daemon
- x11-utils
- dconf-gsettings-backend
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libwnck-3-0
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install budgie-window-shuffler package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.