How To Install imwheel on Fedora 34

imwheel is Mouse Event to Key Event Mapper Daemon

Introduction

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

What is imwheel

A daemon for X11, which watches for mouse wheel actions and outputs them as key presses. It can be configured separately for different windows. It also allows input from it’s own (included) gpm, or from jamd, or from XFree86 ZAxis mouse wheel conversion.

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

Install imwheel 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 imwheel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install imwheel

Install imwheel 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 imwheel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install imwheel

How To Uninstall imwheel on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove imwheel

imwheel Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/imwheelrc
/usr/bin/imwheel
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b0
/usr/lib/.build-id/b0/aa4cf001bec57a64bf2a3a9debb6c0c75dfb6b
/usr/share/doc/imwheel
/usr/share/doc/imwheel/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/imwheel/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/imwheel/EMACS
/usr/share/doc/imwheel/FREEBSD
/usr/share/doc/imwheel/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/imwheel/README
/usr/share/licenses/imwheel
/usr/share/licenses/imwheel/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/imwheel.1.gz

References

Summary

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