xfwm4 command not found

Introduction

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

xfwm4: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: xfwm4: command not found

Solutions to xfwm4: command not found

How To Fix xfwm4: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu xfwm4 is provided by xfwm4 package.

xfwm4 is:

This package contains xfwm4 which is the window manager for Xfce4. It is designed to run with the rest of Xfce4 but makes a capable window manager for GNOME or KDE.

Install xfwm4 if you want a small, resource saving window manager which complies to the standards defined at http://www.freedesktop.org/. Without xfce4 installed this only gives you a window manager not the full environment.

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

sudo apt-get -y install xfwm4

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

You can also use apt command to install xfwm4.

sudo apt -y install xfwm4

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

sudo aptitude install xfwm4

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix xfwm4 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.