I see that in AUR Clutter and Clutter-gtk is installed.
I do not know what the function is of these programs.
Do I need these programs or can I safely remove it?
I’m using Manjaro Xfce
Try to remove and thereby see what depends on it, what may be causing the removal to fail.
These may be orphans, not needed anymore - remnants from previously installed software for which these two where dependencies.
AUR packages are generally not needed - but you may have wanted some software which is not in the normal repositories.
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It looks like both of those packages were moved from Arch’s repos to the AUR at the end of last year:
pamac info clutter clutter-gtk
Name : clutter
Version : 1.26.4-3
Description : A toolkit for creating fast, portable, compelling dynamic UIs
URL : https://blogs.gnome.org/clutter/
Licenses : LGPL
Repository : AUR
Groups : --
Depends On : gtk3 cogl libinput libcogl.so libcogl-pango.so libcogl-path.so
Optional Dependencies : --
Make Dependencies : gobject-introspection gtk-doc git glib2-devel
Check Dependencies : --
Provides : libclutter-1.0.so
Replaces : --
Conflicts With : --
Maintainer : jayden47
First Submitted : Tue 30 Dec 2025 20:45:27
Last Modified : Tue 30 Dec 2025 20:45:27
Votes : 5
Out of Date : Wed 28 Jan 2026 02:10:22
Name : clutter-gtk
Version : 1.8.4-5
Description : Clutter integration with GTK+
URL : https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/clutter-gtk
Licenses : LGPL-2.1
Repository : AUR
Groups : --
Depends On : clutter
Optional Dependencies : --
Make Dependencies : git gobject-introspection gtk-doc meson
Check Dependencies : --
Provides : --
Replaces : --
Conflicts With : --
Maintainer : willemw
First Submitted : Tue 30 Dec 2025 20:35:34
Last Modified : Sat 14 Feb 2026 19:30:13
Votes : 4
Out of Date : --
So they shouldn’t be required for anything on your system.