How To Install battray on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install battray on Fedora 34.
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 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install battray.
Install battray 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 battray using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install battray
Install battray 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 battray using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install battray
How To Uninstall battray on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the battray package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove battray
battray Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/battray
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/battray
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/battray-2.3-py3.9.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/battray-2.3-py3.9.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/battray-2.3-py3.9.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/battray-2.3-py3.9.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/battray-2.3-py3.9.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/battray-2.3-py3.9.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/battray/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/battray/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/battray/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/battray/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/battray/__pycache__/platforms.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/battray/__pycache__/platforms.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/battray/__pycache__/sound.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/battray/__pycache__/sound.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/battray/platforms.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/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 34 using yum and dnf.