trayer command not found

Introduction

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

trayer: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: trayer: command not found

Solutions to trayer: command not found

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

In Ubuntu trayer is provided by trayer package.

trayer is:

trayer is a small program designed to provide systray functionality present in GNOME/KDE desktop environments for window managers which do not support that function. System tray is a place, where various applications put their icons, so they are always visible presenting status of applications and allowing user to control programs.

The code started out as an extraction from fbpanel.

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

sudo apt-get -y install trayer

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

You can also use apt command to install trayer.

sudo apt -y install trayer

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

sudo aptitude install trayer

Summary

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