Complete Guide: Installing wmii on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) 2024

1. Install "wmii" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install wmii on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "wmii" package

Learn how to uninstall wmii on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the wmii package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: wmii
Priority: optional
Section: universe/x11
Installed-Size: 1123
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Andrew Shadura
Architecture: amd64
Version: 3.10~20120413+hg2813-8ubuntu1
Replaces: wmii2
Provides: x-window-manager
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libixp0, libx11-6, libxext6, libxinerama1, libxrandr2, libxrender1, suckless-tools
Recommends: wmii-doc
Suggests: python (>= 2.7), python (<< 2.8), ruby
Conflicts: wmii2
Filename: pool/universe/w/wmii/wmii_3.10~20120413+hg2813-8ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 354152
MD5sum: c6ad3d015ce42a3d9ab0aba3ae7dcd96
SHA1: f23363416b1ae33c570cead5da199519d5d1041f
SHA256: fc8521d397d7c7ca354f025345b2c82a138d8d44c071632d37380e3b5d5f2736
Description-en: lightweight tabbed and tiled X11 window manager, version 3
wmii is a dynamic window manager for X11, which is highly customizable and
usable with keyboard and mouse. It supports conventional, tabbed and tiled
window management with low memory usage. It is highly modularized and uses an
inter-process communication interface which is oriented on the 9p protocol of
plan9.
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This package contains version 3 of the window manager, wmii2 contains version
2.
Description-md5: 9692d24d502bd5e7c68d9a4066598983
Homepage: http://www.suckless.org/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu