How To Install cinnamon-settings-daemon on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cinnamon-settings-daemon on Ubuntu.
What is cinnamon-settings-daemon
cinnamon-settings-daemon is:
This package contains the daemon which is responsible for setting the various parameters of a Cinnamon session and the applications that run under it. It handles the following kinds of settings:
- Keyboard: layout, accessibility options, shortcuts, media keys
- Clipboard management
- Theming: background, icons, GTK+ applications
- Cleanup of unused files
- Mouse: cursors, speed, accessibility options
- Startup of other daemons: screensaver, sound daemon
- Typing break
It also sets various application settings through X resources and freedesktop.org XSETTINGS.
There are three methods to install cinnamon-settings-daemon on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install cinnamon-settings-daemon Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cinnamon-settings-daemon using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cinnamon-settings-daemon
Install cinnamon-settings-daemon Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cinnamon-settings-daemon using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cinnamon-settings-daemon
Install cinnamon-settings-daemon 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 cinnamon-settings-daemon using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cinnamon-settings-daemon
How To Uninstall cinnamon-settings-daemon on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the cinnamon-settings-daemon package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cinnamon-settings-daemon
Uninstall cinnamon-settings-daemon And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cinnamon-settings-daemon and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cinnamon-settings-daemon
Remove cinnamon-settings-daemon Configurations and Data
To remove cinnamon-settings-daemon configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cinnamon-settings-daemon
Remove cinnamon-settings-daemon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cinnamon-settings-daemon configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cinnamon-settings-daemon
Dependencies
cinnamon-settings-daemon have the following dependencies:
- cinnamon-desktop-data
- python3-tinycss
- dconf-gsettings-backend
- gir1.2-cvc-1.0
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libcanberra-gtk3-0
- libcanberra0
- libcinnamon-desktop4
- libcolord2
- libcups2
- libcvc0
- libdbus-glib-1-2
- libfontconfig1
- libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgnomekbd8
- libgtk-3-0
- libgudev-1.0-0
- liblcms2-2
- libnotify4
- libnspr4
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cinnamon-settings-daemon package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.