How To Install sdlhack on Fedora 34

sdlhack is Force full-screen games to minimize

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sdlhack on Fedora 34.

What is sdlhack

SDLHack is a wrapper for SDL which lets you force full-screen games to minimize. It also allows you to disable joystick detection.

We can use yum or dnf to install sdlhack on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sdlhack.

Install sdlhack on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install sdlhack using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sdlhack

Install sdlhack on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install sdlhack using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sdlhack

How To Uninstall sdlhack on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the sdlhack package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove sdlhack

sdlhack Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/sdlhack
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c1
/usr/lib/.build-id/c1/0929e05befe2a860d9072b1eca738329e0206a
/usr/lib64/sdlhack
/usr/lib64/sdlhack/libsdlhack.so
/usr/share/doc/sdlhack
/usr/share/doc/sdlhack/README
/usr/share/licenses/sdlhack
/usr/share/licenses/sdlhack/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/sdlhack.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sdlhack on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.