How To Install unclutter-startup on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install unclutter-startup
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is unclutter-startup
unclutter-startup is:
This package contains the integration of unclutter respectively unclutter-xfixes into /etc/X11/Xsession.d/ so that it can be automatically started for all users of a system.
There are three methods to install unclutter-startup
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 unclutter-startup Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install unclutter-startup
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install unclutter-startup
Install unclutter-startup Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install unclutter-startup
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install unclutter-startup
Install unclutter-startup 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 unclutter-startup
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install unclutter-startup
How To Uninstall unclutter-startup on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the unclutter-startup
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove unclutter-startup
Uninstall unclutter-startup And Its Dependencies
To uninstall unclutter-startup
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove unclutter-startup
Remove unclutter-startup Configurations and Data
To remove unclutter-startup
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge unclutter-startup
Remove unclutter-startup configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove unclutter-startup
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge unclutter-startup
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install unclutter-startup
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.