How to Install and Uninstall switcheroo-control Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 18,2024

1. Install "switcheroo-control" package

This is a short guide on how to install switcheroo-control on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "switcheroo-control" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall switcheroo-control on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                switcheroo-control
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the switcheroo-control package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: switcheroo-control
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.1-1
Priority: optional
Section: gnome
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 85
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.31.18), libgudev-1.0-0 (>= 146)
Filename: pool/main/s/switcheroo-control/switcheroo-control_2.1-1_amd64.deb
Size: 13776
MD5sum: 95f371f9b29fc026753566ad96b515d9
SHA1: 10b718063e4ede38016ebc2839b6412ccab33f2e
SHA256: 48b8a6ded3bad26d4c504b6ada368880a997cd40845f54c6f826787f507d2df4
SHA512: 5daf7303be1f85e5e1ae2b9d374839f6676bf27caabb1e0250eb6f5d83a821a52a6cbb4423c9cace87f989b34ee3752c91e07ecb859bb8eef90009af732d0cd6
Homepage: https://github.com/hadess/switcheroo-control
Description-en: D-Bus service to check the availability of dual-GPU
For systems that have both an integrated GPU and a dedicated GPU, this
package by default will force the integrated GPU to be used to save power.
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You can launch individual apps using the dedicated GPU by running them
with the environment variable DRI_PRIME=1. Or you can right-click on the
app (while it's not running) in GNOME Shell's Activities Overview
and choose the "Launch using Dedicated Graphics Card" option.
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If this default behavior is not appropriate, uninstall this package or
set xdg.force_integrated=0 as a kernel command-line option in your
bootloader.
Description-md5: 969e3946049acfcf8b3a8cc4542e5a01
Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-desktop-raspi