How To Install kanshi on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kanshi on Fedora 34.
What is kanshi
kanshi allows you to define output profiles that are automatically enabled and disabled on hotplug. For instance, this can be used to turn a laptop’s internal screen off when docked. This is a Wayland equivalent for tools like autorandr. kanshi can be used on Wayland compositors supporting the wlr-output-management protocol.
We can use yum or dnf to install kanshi on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install kanshi.
Install kanshi 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 kanshi using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install kanshi
Install kanshi 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 kanshi using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install kanshi
How To Uninstall kanshi on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the kanshi package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove kanshi
kanshi Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/kanshi
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/41
/usr/lib/.build-id/41/0e1c0eb55756043adc54cc70d8eda1f7081561
/usr/share/doc/kanshi
/usr/share/doc/kanshi/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/kanshi
/usr/share/licenses/kanshi/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/kanshi.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/kanshi.5.gz
/usr/bin/kanshi
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb/a5eca4b5e8d77396f7cd6ff1ffceb2799fdf31
/usr/share/doc/kanshi
/usr/share/doc/kanshi/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/kanshi
/usr/share/licenses/kanshi/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/kanshi.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/kanshi.5.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kanshi on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.