How to install Cuttle fish in Ubuntu

How to install Cuttle fish in Ubuntu

Cuttlefish is a tool for binding actions when other applications are opened. For example, you can configure a event to unmute your system when a music app is opened, or to open the file manager when a certain USB stick is inserted using cuttle fish. This tutorial covers the installation procedure of Cuttle fish in Ubuntu.

Installation procedure

To start with the installation process, add the repository to the target system by executing the following command.

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1# add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/apps
 Apps that are not available in Ubuntu universe repositories or the Ubuntu repositories only provide an old version
Maintained by http://ubuntuhandbook.org
Liferea News Reader:
        No update for Ubuntu 14.04 since Liferea now requires GTK > =3.14
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuhandbook1/+archive/ubuntu/apps
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpwzmc2rbd/secring.gpg'  created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpwzmc2rbd/pubring.gpg'  created
gpg: requesting key 852541CB from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmpwzmc2rbd/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key 852541CB: public key " Launchpad PPA for Panda Jim"  imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
OK

The repositories are added to the target system. Update the local repository index by executing the apt-get update command.

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty InRelease [15.4 kB]
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security InRelease [65.9 kB]          
Ign http://extras.ubuntu.com trusty InRelease                                 
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Ign http://in.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/restricted Translation-en_IN          
Ign http://in.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/universe Translation-en_IN            
Fetched 6,730 kB in 35s (192 kB/s)                                            
Reading package lists... Done

The target system is updated with the required repositories. Now install the cuttle fish package by running the following command.

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1# apt-get install cuttlefish
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
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Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1.1) ...
Setting up python-psutil (1.2.1-1ubuntu2) ...
Setting up python-pyudev (0.16.1-2build1) ...
Setting up cuttlefish (13.12~trusty) ...

The application is installed successfully. To open the application, type the Cuttle fish package name in the ubuntu dashboard and click on the icon to run the application.

Create a new reflex or action by setting the notifications, indicator menu, stimulus settings.

Select an event like date and time, hardware, network, power management, and screensaver and click ok.

Next select the reaction event and the time required for the event to occur.

The new reflex is created successfully.

Wasn' t that an easy installation procedure? Cuttlefish also has an indicator applet that allows the user to run any rule on demand.