How To Install lxinput on Fedora 34

lxinput is Keyboard and mouse settings dialog for LXDE

Introduction

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

What is `lxinput`

LXInput is a keyboard and mouse configuration utility for LXDE, the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment.

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

Install lxinput 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 lxinput using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lxinput

Install lxinput 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 lxinput using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lxinput

How To Uninstall lxinput on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove lxinput

lxinput Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/lxinput
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/30
/usr/lib/.build-id/30/3d1cc3beb26290080b904de438acb6df36fa04
/usr/share/applications/lxinput.desktop
/usr/share/doc/lxinput
/usr/share/doc/lxinput/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/lxinput/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/lxinput/README
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/fo/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/frp/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/lg/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/ps/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/tt_RU/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/ur/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/ur_PK/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/lxinput.mo
/usr/share/lxinput
/usr/share/lxinput/input-keyboard.png
/usr/share/lxinput/input-mouse.png
/usr/share/lxinput/lxinput.ui
/usr/share/man/man1/lxinput.1.gz

References

lxinput website

Summary

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