How To Install bspwm on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bspwm on Fedora 34.
What is bspwm
bspwm is a tiling window manager that represents windows as the leaves of a full binary tree. It only responds to X events, and the messages it receives on a dedicated socket. bspc is a program that writes messages on bspwm’s socket. bspwm doesn’t handle any keyboard or pointer inputs (e.g. sxhkd) is needed in order to translate keyboard and pointer events to bspc invocations.
We can use yum or dnf to install bspwm on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bspwm.
Install bspwm 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 bspwm using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install bspwm
Install bspwm 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 bspwm using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install bspwm
How To Uninstall bspwm on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the bspwm package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove bspwm
bspwm Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/bspc
/usr/bin/bspwm
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/55
/usr/lib/.build-id/55/0749c7f3e9bc29600dbb0fe1a7a0e2efa37428
/usr/lib/.build-id/a9
/usr/lib/.build-id/a9/3a55ba2a69c1f477191b68e4c3bc8ea2d11f8f
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/bspc
/usr/share/doc/bspwm
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/INSTALL.md
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/MISC.md
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/README.md
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/TODO.md
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/bspwmrc
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/external_rules
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/external_rules/bspwmrc
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/external_rules/external_rules
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/overlapping_borders
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/overlapping_borders/bspwmrc
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/panel
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/panel/bspwmrc
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/panel/panel
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/panel/panel_bar
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/panel/panel_colors
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/panel/profile
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/panel/sxhkdrc
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/receptacles
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/receptacles/README.md
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/receptacles/extract_canvas
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/receptacles/induce_rules
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/sxhkdrc
/usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d/bspc.fish
/usr/share/licenses/bspwm
/usr/share/licenses/bspwm/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/bspc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/bspwm.1.gz
/usr/share/xsessions/bspwm.desktop
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_bspc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bspwm on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.