How To Install mate-dock-applet on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mate-dock-applet
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is mate-dock-applet
mate-dock-applet is:
An application dock applet for the MATE panel. The applet allows you to:
- place a dock on any MATE panel, of any size, on any side of the desktop you desire.
- pin and unpin apps to the dock
- rearrange application icons on the dock
- launch apps by clicking on their icons in the dock
- minimize/unminimize running app windows by clicking the app’s dock icon
- detect changes in the current icon theme and update the dock accordingly
- use an indicator by each app to show when it is running
- optionally, use multiple indicators for each window an app has open
- use either a light or dark indicator that it can always be seen no matter what colour the panel is, or turn indicators off altogether
- change the colour of MATE panels to the dominant colour (i.e. the most common colour) of the desktop wallpaper. The colour can be applied to all panels or just the panel containing the dock. Task: ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop
There are three methods to install mate-dock-applet
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mate-dock-applet Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mate-dock-applet
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mate-dock-applet
Install mate-dock-applet Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mate-dock-applet
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mate-dock-applet
Install mate-dock-applet 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 mate-dock-applet
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mate-dock-applet
How To Uninstall mate-dock-applet on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the mate-dock-applet
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mate-dock-applet
Uninstall mate-dock-applet And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mate-dock-applet
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mate-dock-applet
Remove mate-dock-applet Configurations and Data
To remove mate-dock-applet
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mate-dock-applet
Remove mate-dock-applet configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mate-dock-applet
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mate-dock-applet
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mate-dock-applet
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.