How To Install muffin on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install muffin in Fedora 36. muffin is Window and compositing manager based on Clutter

Introduction

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

What is `muffin`

Muffin is a window and compositing manager that displays and manages your desktop via OpenGL. Muffin combines a sophisticated display engine using the Clutter toolkit with solid window-management logic inherited from the Metacity window manager. Muffin is very extensible via plugins, which are used both to add fancy visual effects and to rework the window management behaviors to meet the needs of the environment.

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

Install muffin 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 muffin using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install muffin

Install muffin 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 muffin using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install muffin

How To Uninstall muffin on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove muffin

muffin Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/muffin
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/05
/usr/lib/.build-id/05/374660579768ebdf7a3c24354637a4c5a56e1e
/usr/lib/.build-id/05/7d6d7bc080ea456dff6ab182a07c9e2fe0aee6
/usr/lib/.build-id/16
/usr/lib/.build-id/16/c1497a0ee5f7050b8e2b6fae1789704bb27e2c
/usr/lib/.build-id/36
/usr/lib/.build-id/36/e9e8407df845039d9fce131581d4e6023015e8
/usr/lib/.build-id/59
/usr/lib/.build-id/59/ef29e15390e8927175aaf73256f07230dd2ab8
/usr/lib/.build-id/63
/usr/lib/.build-id/63/2f9e30a5a3f75b2daa3f81049ed81e14845aa5
/usr/lib/.build-id/bd
/usr/lib/.build-id/bd/cab7e4d7271a17eb2f5c50a4cbb765379d8357
/usr/lib/.build-id/d3
/usr/lib/.build-id/d3/dd73c86f47806850c37c59fd334624e4da324b
/usr/lib64/libmuffin-clutter-0.so
/usr/lib64/libmuffin-cogl-0.so
/usr/lib64/libmuffin-cogl-pango-0.so
/usr/lib64/libmuffin-cogl-path-0.so
/usr/lib64/libmuffin.so.0
/usr/lib64/libmuffin.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib64/muffin
/usr/lib64/muffin/Cally-0.typelib
/usr/lib64/muffin/Clutter-0.typelib
/usr/lib64/muffin/ClutterX11-0.typelib
/usr/lib64/muffin/Cogl-0.typelib
/usr/lib64/muffin/CoglPango-0.typelib
/usr/lib64/muffin/Meta-Muffin.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/muffin/libmuffin-clutter-0.so
/usr/lib64/muffin/libmuffin-cogl-0.so
/usr/lib64/muffin/libmuffin-cogl-pango-0.so
/usr/lib64/muffin/libmuffin-cogl-path-0.so
/usr/lib64/muffin/plugins
/usr/lib64/muffin/plugins/default.so
/usr/libexec/muffin-restart-helper
/usr/share/applications/muffin.desktop
/usr/share/doc/muffin
/usr/share/doc/muffin/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/muffin/HACKING
/usr/share/doc/muffin/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/muffin/README
/usr/share/doc/muffin/theme-format.txt
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.cinnamon.muffin.gschema.xml
/usr/share/licenses/muffin
/usr/share/licenses/muffin/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/am/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/az/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/be@latin/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/br/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/dz/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ha/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/hy/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ig/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ku/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/la/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/mai/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/mg/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/mn/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/rw/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/tk/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/wa/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/xh/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/yo/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/muffin.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/muffin.1.gz
/usr/share/muffin
/usr/share/muffin/theme
/usr/share/muffin/theme/metacity-theme-3.xml
/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/metacity-1
/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/metacity-1/muffin-adwaita.txt

References

muffin website

Summary

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