How To Install easystroke on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install easystroke on Fedora 34.
What is easystroke
Easystroke is a gesture-recognition application for X11. Gestures or strokes are movements that you make with you mouse (or your pen, finger etc.) while holding down a specific mouse button. Easystroke will execute certain actions if it recognizes the stroke; currently easystroke can emulate key presses, execute shell commands, hold down modifiers and emulate a scroll wheel.
We can use yum or dnf to install easystroke on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install easystroke.
Install easystroke 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 easystroke using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install easystroke
Install easystroke 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 easystroke using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install easystroke
How To Uninstall easystroke on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the easystroke package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove easystroke
easystroke Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/easystroke
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/44
/usr/lib/.build-id/44/be9bf7b91a957a9709f94d07b9c0cb961a13db
/usr/share/appdata/easystroke.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/easystroke.desktop
/usr/share/doc/easystroke
/usr/share/doc/easystroke/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/easystroke/changelog
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/easystroke.svg
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/easystroke.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/easystroke.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/easystroke.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/easystroke.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/easystroke.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/easystroke.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/easystroke.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/easystroke.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/easystroke.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/easystroke.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/easystroke.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/easystroke.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/easystroke.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/easystroke.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/easystroke.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/easystroke.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/easystroke.mo
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install easystroke on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.