How To Install mousetweaks on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mousetweaks
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is mousetweaks
mousetweaks is:
This package contains a daemon and some panel applets to improve mouse usability on the GNOME desktop. These enhancements are:
- The possibility to click without a button
- The ability to bring the context menu with a one-button mouse (like MacOS does)
- An area to capture the mouse pointer until it is released with a pre-defined key combination. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install mousetweaks
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 mousetweaks Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mousetweaks
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mousetweaks
Install mousetweaks Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mousetweaks
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mousetweaks
Install mousetweaks 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 mousetweaks
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mousetweaks
How To Uninstall mousetweaks on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the mousetweaks
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mousetweaks
Uninstall mousetweaks And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mousetweaks
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mousetweaks
Remove mousetweaks Configurations and Data
To remove mousetweaks
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mousetweaks
Remove mousetweaks configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mousetweaks
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mousetweaks
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mousetweaks
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.