devilspie2 command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

devilspie2: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: devilspie2: command not found

Solutions to devilspie2: command not found

How To Fix devilspie2: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu devilspie2 is provided by devilspie2 package.

devilspie2 is:

Devilspie2 is a window matching utility, allowing the user to perform scripted actions on windows as they are created. For example, you can script a terminal program to always be positioned at a specific screen position, or automatically position a window on a specific workspace.

It is a continuation of Ross Burton’s project Devilspie, with the most significant change that the symbolic expressions of that project are replaced with a Lua interpreter.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install devilspie2

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install devilspie2.

sudo apt -y install devilspie2

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install devilspie2

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix devilspie2 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.