How To Install battray on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install battray in Fedora 36. battray is Tool for displaying a laptop’s battery status in the system traiy

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install battray on Fedora 36.

What is battray

Battray is a fairly simple tray icon to show a laptop’s battery status. It’s simple, easy, fairly environment-independent, and ‘just works’ without tons of {Gnome,KDE,..} dependencies. One can also configure it to play annoying sounds if your battery is getting low, dim the screen when you switch from AC to battery, etc.

We can use yum or dnf to install battray on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install battray.

Install battray on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install battray

Install battray on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install battray

How To Uninstall battray on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove battray

battray Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/battray
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/battray
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/battray-2.3-py3.10.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/battray-2.3-py3.10.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/battray-2.3-py3.10.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/battray-2.3-py3.10.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/battray-2.3-py3.10.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/battray-2.3-py3.10.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/battray/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/battray/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/battray/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/battray/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/battray/__pycache__/platforms.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/battray/__pycache__/platforms.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/battray/__pycache__/sound.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/battray/__pycache__/sound.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/battray/platforms.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/battray/sound.py
/usr/share/battray
/usr/share/battray/alert.wav
/usr/share/battray/battery.png
/usr/share/battray/battrayrc.py
/usr/share/battray/charging.png
/usr/share/battray/connected.png
/usr/share/battray/error.png
/usr/share/battray/icon.png
/usr/share/doc/battray
/usr/share/doc/battray/README.markdown
/usr/share/licenses/battray
/usr/share/licenses/battray/LICENSE

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install battray on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).