How To Install slick-greeter on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install slick-greeter
on Kali Linux.
What is slick-greeter
slick-greeter is:
Slick-Greeter is cross-distribution and should work pretty much anywhere.
All panel applets are embedded. No external indicators are launched or loaded by the greeter.
No settings daemon are launched or loaded by the greeter.
This greeter supports HiDPI.
Sessions are validated. If a default/chosen session isn’t present on the system, the greeter scans for known sessions in /usr/share/xsessions and replaces the invalid session choice with a valid session.
You can take a screenshot by pressing PrintScrn. The screenshot is saved in /var/lib/lightdm/Screenshot.png.
Slick Greeter started as a fork of Unity Greeter 16.04.2, a greeter developed for Ubuntu by Canonical, which used indicators and unity-settings-daemon.
There are three methods to install slick-greeter
on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install slick-greeter Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install slick-greeter
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install slick-greeter Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install slick-greeter
using apt
by running the following command:
Install slick-greeter Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install slick-greeter
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall slick-greeter on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the slick-greeter
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall slick-greeter And Its Dependencies
To uninstall slick-greeter
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove slick-greeter Configurations and Data
To remove slick-greeter
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove slick-greeter configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove slick-greeter
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
slick-greeter have the following dependencies:
- lightdm
- python3
- python3-gi
- dconf-gsettings-backend
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo-gobject2
- libcairo2
- libcanberra0
- libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- liblightdm-gobject-1-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libx11-6
- libxext6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install slick-greeter
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.