Ubuntu / Raspberry Pi: Delete screensaver like xlyap, shadebobs and fiberlamp!

With the desktop version of Raspbian, but also with Debian or Ubuntu often come screen savers. They only make limited sense because they consume a lot of unnecessary resources on the small Raspberry Pi: Here it helps more to turn off the screen when it’s not needed.

If you want to remove the automatically installed screensavers, this short command will help you in a Linux console:

sudo apt-get remove xscreensaver

With „sudo“ you’ll get root rights for a short time. „apt“ is the package manager: You tell it to delete the package „xscreensaver“ with this command:

If you confirm the query, you can delete the installed screensavers. If you also want to delete other automatically installed packages, you can use this command:

sudo apt autoremove

Under certain circumstances, however, this will also delete packages that are needed again later: With the first command you only remove the xscreensaver.