How To Install fbpanel on Fedora 34

fbpanel is A lightweight X11 desktop panel

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fbpanel on Fedora 34.

What is fbpanel

fbpanel is a lightweight X11 desktop panel. It works with any ICCCM / NETWM compliant window manager such as sawfish, metacity, openbox, xfwm4, or KDE. It features tasklist, pager, launchbar, clock, menu and systray.

We can use yum or dnf to install fbpanel on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fbpanel.

Install fbpanel 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 fbpanel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fbpanel

Install fbpanel 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 fbpanel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fbpanel

How To Uninstall fbpanel on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove fbpanel

fbpanel Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/fbpanel
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/00
/usr/lib/.build-id/00/627959cef31be98cfc9bddb0f489c3a941e39e
/usr/lib/.build-id/02
/usr/lib/.build-id/02/daad0506bd816e62bb150aeb4c9e8b8e711dc2
/usr/lib/.build-id/13
/usr/lib/.build-id/13/55174937f6eb97d6e986d8f29735a3d96172f4
/usr/lib/.build-id/15
/usr/lib/.build-id/15/2e0b554217d0419bd45b9abbb45c80274d8ddd
/usr/lib/.build-id/15/b197ae8813074a56676cdd2e8e474003e07792
/usr/lib/.build-id/3c
/usr/lib/.build-id/3c/68c8b27b626e89458dfbf59064f9a009920adc
/usr/lib/.build-id/43
/usr/lib/.build-id/43/b575a26707b3d291df976b8fca11b627a30c62
/usr/lib/.build-id/44
/usr/lib/.build-id/44/f26805328ec62ee4c152febeea2c2159114faf
/usr/lib/.build-id/50
/usr/lib/.build-id/50/342e7fd3fdfda8f975e5566911a2ed8d68b99d
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a/4213061ea7e4b1f8003845ce40f3b671f3d1ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b/9b1a15ee98ead89a973809fd4e46d594e4b3bc
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e/624b5b615933ca31f488c6b97f97b0c0591f61
/usr/lib/.build-id/81
/usr/lib/.build-id/81/f48dd56f7f016194ac745d4119c55143f3d6ab
/usr/lib/.build-id/90
/usr/lib/.build-id/90/a910786b4bf93435bcfb32b2dfaaa59080ec11
/usr/lib/.build-id/93
/usr/lib/.build-id/93/714995abea0146e3386c41b7d92518f7ed7b11
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b/ad74e11e1f13ee8ae34aea7e70ff4d7d5788e4
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae/f8fd412aa1ebd0c5f44ab6a9425ca8158d6ac8
/usr/lib/.build-id/c2
/usr/lib/.build-id/c2/6e6164437027f8749816fe866e1ab21b923d09
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc/45137eace86078d42cc9c6fab5e196b045dbf6
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2/859eb47f42dd5b850f0cc6d946d05207f57132
/usr/lib/.build-id/d9
/usr/lib/.build-id/d9/8000678c1b87219a6b2a97ae7083d8ec7a1a5d
/usr/lib/.build-id/f1
/usr/lib/.build-id/f1/ac6c0abb05a0f364f1e8d37c80725fa93b884a
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc/ece25838193ba019474b0482b661efec4f6923
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff/cae74fa22ebcd0294df312bfd074301cb93027
/usr/lib64/fbpanel
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libbattery.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libchart.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libcpu.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libdclock.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libdeskno.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libdeskno2.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libgenmon.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libicons.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libimage.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/liblaunchbar.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libmem.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libmem2.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libmenu.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libmeter.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libnet.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libpager.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libseparator.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libspace.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libtaskbar.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libtclock.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libtray.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libuser.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libwincmd.so
/usr/libexec/fbpanel
/usr/libexec/fbpanel/make_profile
/usr/libexec/fbpanel/xlogout
/usr/share/doc/fbpanel
/usr/share/doc/fbpanel/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/fbpanel/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/fbpanel/NOTES
/usr/share/doc/fbpanel/README.md
/usr/share/fbpanel
/usr/share/fbpanel/default
/usr/share/fbpanel/images
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/battery_0.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/battery_1.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/battery_2.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/battery_3.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/battery_4.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/battery_5.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/battery_6.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/battery_7.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/battery_8.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/battery_charging_0.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/battery_charging_1.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/battery_charging_2.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/battery_charging_3.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/battery_charging_4.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/battery_charging_5.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/battery_charging_6.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/battery_charging_7.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/battery_charging_8.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/battery_na.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/dclock_glyphs.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/default.xpm
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/logo.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/start-here.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/system-reboot.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/system-shutdown.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/pager
/usr/share/licenses/fbpanel
/usr/share/licenses/fbpanel/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/fbpanel.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fbpanel on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.