How To Install clfswm on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install clfswm on Kali Linux.

What is clfswm

clfswm is:

CLFSWM is a 100% Common Lisp X11 window manager (based on Tinywm and Stumpwm. Many thanks to them). It can be driven only with the keyboard or with the mouse.

A display contains a root frame and its children. A child can be a window or another frame. The root frame or its children can be the current root. The current root is fullscreen maximized (no decorations, no buttons, no menus: nothing, just the application fullscreen!).

CLFSWM is highly dynamic. By default there is only one frame (the root frame). Other frames are created/deleted on the fly. A window can be in more than one frame, so it can have multiple views of the same windows.

Using CLFSWM is like walking through a tree of frames and windows. Enter in a child to make it the current root and make it fullscreen maximized. Leave it to make its parent the current root.

There are three methods to install clfswm 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 clfswm Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install clfswm

Install clfswm Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install clfswm using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install clfswm

Install clfswm 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.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install clfswm

How To Uninstall clfswm on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the clfswm package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove clfswm

Uninstall clfswm And Its Dependencies

To uninstall clfswm and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove clfswm

Remove clfswm Configurations and Data

To remove clfswm configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge clfswm

Remove clfswm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge clfswm

Dependencies

clfswm have the following dependencies:

• clisp-module-clx

References

• clfswm website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install clfswm package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.