How To Install compiz-boxmenu on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install compiz-boxmenu on Ubuntu 22.04. compiz-boxmenu is Compiz Reloaded - daemon and clients providing pop-up menus

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install compiz-boxmenu on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is compiz-boxmenu

compiz-boxmenu is:

Boxmenu provides a number of different menus to the compositing window manager Compiz and possibly to other window managers as well.

It is composed of a daemon that caches the different menus from various sources, following desktop standards and a number of clients to ask the daemon for a specific type of menu, clients that can be bound to different key-chords and mouse events using the Compizconfig Settings Manager.

The components are compiz-boxmenu, compiz-boxmenu-editor, a menu editor and compiz-boxmenu-{daemon,dlist,dplist,vplist,wlist}, where the specialized clients are respectively for recent documents, desktops, viewports and windows.

There are three methods to install compiz-boxmenu on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install compiz-boxmenu Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install compiz-boxmenu using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install compiz-boxmenu

Install compiz-boxmenu Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install compiz-boxmenu using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install compiz-boxmenu

Install compiz-boxmenu 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install compiz-boxmenu using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install compiz-boxmenu

How To Uninstall compiz-boxmenu on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the compiz-boxmenu package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove compiz-boxmenu

Uninstall compiz-boxmenu And Its Dependencies

To uninstall compiz-boxmenu and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove compiz-boxmenu

Remove compiz-boxmenu Configurations and Data

To remove compiz-boxmenu configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge compiz-boxmenu

Remove compiz-boxmenu configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove compiz-boxmenu configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge compiz-boxmenu

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install compiz-boxmenu package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.