How to Install and Uninstall nitrogen Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: December 23,2024

1. Install "nitrogen" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install nitrogen on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install nitrogen

2. Uninstall "nitrogen" package

This is a short guide on how to uninstall nitrogen on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):

$ sudo apt remove nitrogen $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the nitrogen package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: nitrogen
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.6.1-2build1
Priority: extra
Section: universe/x11
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Stefan Schörghofer
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 551
Depends: libatkmm-1.6-1v5 (>= 2.24.0), libc6 (>= 2.15), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libglibmm-2.4-1v5 (>= 2.54.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.24.0), libgtkmm-2.4-1v5 (>= 1:2.24.0), libpangomm-1.4-1v5 (>= 2.42.0), libsigc++-2.0-0v5 (>= 2.8.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), libx11-6, libxinerama1
Filename: pool/universe/n/nitrogen/nitrogen_1.6.1-2build1_amd64.deb
Size: 153228
MD5sum: 215bae9a4fa6f8acb836c9be97f506ec
SHA1: d9cb9d52d74bd8a98292f1293a4d9be58ab3cea7
SHA256: 0bfe41b29acdf916f362a0b370fee31f21773acab1ef9f34312d2278c753ea34
SHA512: fdf6ebfb6dd7972edfde1882e9685b1628a6a140284e0c6b8f7078ea04571a6303da2b25739dbf2a094332c1efc17166c3606e2fdd2d3e8ef6800f3ac3114f08
Homepage: http://projects.l3ib.org/nitrogen/
Description-en: wallpaper browser and changing utility for X
nitrogen is a graphical wallpaper utility that can be used in two
modes, browser and recall.
Some of the things to look for in nitrogen are:
.
* Multihead and Xinerama support (setting
different wallpapers for each monitor)
* Recall mode to restore wallpapers via startup script
* Uses freedesktop.org standard for thumbnails
* Can set GNOME background
* Command line set modes for script usage
* Inotify monitoring of browsed directories
Description-md5: dfb4721faa07fe523b31acbc55241be1