How To Install devilspie2 on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install devilspie2 on Fedora 34.
What is devilspie2
Devilspie2 is a window matching utility, allowing the user to perform scripted actions on windows as they are created. For example you can script a terminal program to always be positioned at a specific screen position, or position a window on a specific workspace. It is based on the program Devilspie by Ross Burton.
We can use yum or dnf to install devilspie2 on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install devilspie2.
Install devilspie2 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 devilspie2 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install devilspie2
Install devilspie2 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 devilspie2 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install devilspie2
How To Uninstall devilspie2 on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the devilspie2 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove devilspie2
devilspie2 Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/devilspie2
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/84
/usr/lib/.build-id/84/38ba3a4c1a9f8d90eca19c4bc81947ce7854aa
/usr/share/doc/devilspie2
/usr/share/doc/devilspie2/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/devilspie2/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/devilspie2/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/devilspie2/GPL3.txt
/usr/share/doc/devilspie2/README
/usr/share/doc/devilspie2/README.translators
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/devilspie2.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/devilspie2.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/devilspie2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/devilspie2.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/devilspie2.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/devilspie2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/devilspie2.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/devilspie2.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/devilspie2.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install devilspie2 on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.