How To Install lxsession on Fedora 34
lxsession is Lightweight X11 session manager
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lxsession on Fedora 34.
What is lxsession
LXSession is a standard-compliant X11 session manager with shutdown/ reboot/suspend support via systemd. In connection with gdm it also supports user switching. LXSession is derived from XSM and is developed as default X11 session manager of LXDE, the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment. Though being part of LXDE, it’s totally desktop-independent and only has few dependencies.
We can use yum or dnf to install lxsession on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lxsession.
Install lxsession 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 lxsession using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install lxsession
Install lxsession 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 lxsession using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install lxsession
How To Uninstall lxsession on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the lxsession package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove lxsession
lxsession Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/xdg/lxsession
/usr/bin/lxclipboard
/usr/bin/lxlock
/usr/bin/lxsession
/usr/bin/lxsession-db
/usr/bin/lxsession-default
/usr/bin/lxsession-default-apps
/usr/bin/lxsession-default-terminal
/usr/bin/lxsession-logout
/usr/bin/lxsession-xdg-autostart
/usr/bin/lxsettings-daemon
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/24
/usr/lib/.build-id/24/6d3f910b76c58f0ee57381e8a65e65093c9b4c
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba/602f5f2d0a0ac304896ca866109fb8a97cdb42
/usr/lib/.build-id/be
/usr/lib/.build-id/be/fd6838002301f481e0c258503685b9354bd4b2
/usr/lib/.build-id/d3
/usr/lib/.build-id/d3/61790dd1cb2c09d19faa013a6d1e246b17f0cf
/usr/lib/.build-id/d6
/usr/lib/.build-id/d6/7d3a98c93f65bac40ce6692ce763864b61d48d
/usr/lib/.build-id/e9
/usr/lib/.build-id/e9/ec9e0758964e5e704de083d7a65a400c0299b8
/usr/lib/.build-id/f4
/usr/lib/.build-id/f4/1ad45e5f0f026ebf6993817512fbd969c1b292
/usr/libexec/lxsession
/usr/libexec/lxsession/lxsession-xsettings
/usr/share/applications/lxsession-default-apps.desktop
/usr/share/doc/lxsession
/usr/share/doc/lxsession/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/lxsession/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/lxsession/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/lxsession/README
/usr/share/doc/lxsession/desktop.conf.example
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/am/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/fo/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/frp/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/lg/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/ps/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/tt_RU/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/ur/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/ur_PK/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/lxsession
/usr/share/lxsession/images
/usr/share/lxsession/images/gnome-session-hibernate.png
/usr/share/lxsession/images/gnome-session-reboot.png
/usr/share/lxsession/images/gnome-session-suspend.png
/usr/share/lxsession/images/gnome-session-switch.png
/usr/share/lxsession/images/system-log-out.png
/usr/share/lxsession/images/system-shutdown.png
/usr/share/lxsession/ui
/usr/share/lxsession/ui/lxsession-default-apps.ui
/usr/share/man/man1/lxclipboard.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lxlock.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lxpolkit.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lxsession-db.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lxsession-default-apps.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lxsession-default-terminal.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lxsession-default.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lxsession-edit.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lxsession-logout.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lxsession-xdg-autostart.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lxsession.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lxsettings-daemon.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lxsession on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
