How To Install swayidle 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 swayidle on Ubuntu.
What is swayidle
swayidle is:
This is sway’s idle management daemon, swayidle. It is compatible with any Wayland compositor which implements the KDE idle protocol. See the man page, swayidle(1), for instructions on configuring swayidle.
There are three methods to install swayidle 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 swayidle Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install swayidle using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install swayidle
Install swayidle Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install swayidle using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install swayidle
Install swayidle 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 swayidle using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install swayidle
How To Uninstall swayidle on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the swayidle package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove swayidle
Uninstall swayidle And Its Dependencies
To uninstall swayidle and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove swayidle
Remove swayidle Configurations and Data
To remove swayidle configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge swayidle
Remove swayidle configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove swayidle configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge swayidle
Dependencies
swayidle have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install swayidle package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.