Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-applets on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is gnome-applets
gnome-applets is:
Keyboard Accessibility Status: indicates keyboard accessibility settings,
including the current state of the keyboard, if those features are in use.
Battery Charge Monitor: monitors the power subsystem on a laptop.
Brightness: provides a way to adjust screen brightness.
Character palette: provides a convenient way to access non-standard
characters, such as accented characters, mathematical symbols, special
symbols, and punctuation marks.
Command: shows the output of a command.
CPUFreq: CPU frequency scaling monitor.
Disk Mounter: lets you mount and unmount drives and file systems.
Eyes: pair of eyes which follow the mouse pointer around the screen.
Weather Report: shows the current weather conditions, and forecasts.
Inhibit: allows you to inhibit automatic power saving.
System Monitor: a system load indicator.
Network Monitor (Netspeed): shows how much traffic occurs on a network
device (ethernet card, wireless LAN card, or dial-up).
Sticky Notes: lets you create, view, and manage sticky notes on the
desktop.
Search Bar: allows you to find your data quickly using Tracker.
Timer: lets you start a timer and receive a notification when it is
finished.
Trash: lets you drag items to the trash folder.
Window Buttons: shows window controls (minimize, restore, close) in the
panel for maximized windows.
Window Picker applet: window switcher showing only icons, not titles.
Window Title: shows window title in the panel for maximized windows.
Package: gnome-applets
Architecture: amd64
Version: 3.36.2-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/gnome
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected]
Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected]
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 1179
Depends: gnome-applets-data (« 3.37), gnome-applets-data (>= 3.36), gnome-panel (>= 3.10), gvfs, upower, libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.4), libc6 (>= 2.15), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libcpufreq0 (>= 001), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.25.2), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.55.2), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.21.5), libgtop-2.0-11 (>= 2.22.3), libgucharmap-2-90-7 (>= 1:3.0.0), libgweather-3-16 (>= 3.28.0), libnotify4 (>= 0.7.0), libpanel-applet3 (>= 3.24.1), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpolkit-gobject-1-0 (>= 0.99), libtracker-sparql-2.0-0 (>= 0.10.0), libupower-glib3 (>= 0.99.8), libwnck-3-0 (>= 3.14.1), libx11-6, libxml2 (>= 2.7.4)
Recommends: gnome-flashback (>= 3.18) | polkit-1-auth-agent, gnome-system-monitor
Suggests: gnote
Filename: pool/universe/g/gnome-applets/gnome-applets_3.36.2-1_amd64.deb
Size: 312872
MD5sum: a893de560c67b5a08e8e54286d047ea4
SHA1: 1e3decb777f8247890008fbb9933d3005f4b9947
SHA256: 30291b50c0d1ad595453395ccf57ae2c14e640cdd823dea7647d91f1e97fd88b
Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeApplets
Description-en: Various applets for the GNOME panel – binary files
Keyboard Accessibility Status: indicates keyboard accessibility settings,
including the current state of the keyboard, if those features are in use.
Battery Charge Monitor: monitors the power subsystem on a laptop.
Brightness: provides a way to adjust screen brightness.
Character palette: provides a convenient way to access non-standard
characters, such as accented characters, mathematical symbols, special
symbols, and punctuation marks.
Command: shows the output of a command.
CPUFreq: CPU frequency scaling monitor.
Disk Mounter: lets you mount and unmount drives and file systems.
Eyes: pair of eyes which follow the mouse pointer around the screen.
Weather Report: shows the current weather conditions, and forecasts.
Inhibit: allows you to inhibit automatic power saving.
System Monitor: a system load indicator.
Network Monitor (Netspeed): shows how much traffic occurs on a network
device (ethernet card, wireless LAN card, or dial-up).
Sticky Notes: lets you create, view, and manage sticky notes on the
desktop.
Search Bar: allows you to find your data quickly using Tracker.
Timer: lets you start a timer and receive a notification when it is
finished.
Trash: lets you drag items to the trash folder.
Window Buttons: shows window controls (minimize, restore, close) in the
panel for maximized windows.
Window Picker applet: window switcher showing only icons, not titles.
Window Title: shows window title in the panel for maximized windows.
There are three methods to install gnome-applets 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 gnome-applets Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-applets using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnome-applets
Install gnome-applets Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-applets using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnome-applets
Install gnome-applets 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 gnome-applets using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnome-applets
How To Uninstall gnome-applets on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the gnome-applets package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-applets
Uninstall gnome-applets And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnome-applets and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-applets
Remove gnome-applets Configurations and Data
To remove gnome-applets configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-applets
Remove gnome-applets configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnome-applets configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-applets
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-applets package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
