How To Install compton on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install compton
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is compton
compton is:
compton is a compositor for X11, based on xcompmgr. In addition to shadows, fading and translucency, compton implements window frame opacity control, inactive window transparency, and shadows on argb windows.
This package is deprecated and will soon be removed, please switch to picom.
There are three methods to install compton
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install compton Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install compton
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install compton
Install compton Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install compton
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install compton
Install compton 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 compton
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install compton
How To Uninstall compton on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the compton
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove compton
Uninstall compton And Its Dependencies
To uninstall compton
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove compton
Remove compton Configurations and Data
To remove compton
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge compton
Remove compton configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove compton
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge compton
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install compton
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.