How To Install musca on Fedora 34

musca is A simple dynamic window manager fox X

Introduction

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

What is `musca`

musca is a simple dynamic window manager for X, with features nicked from ratpoison and dwm. Musca operates as a tiling window manager by default. It uses manual tiling, which means the user determines how the screen is divided into non-overlapping frames, with no restrictions on layout.

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

Install musca 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 musca using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install musca

Install musca 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 musca using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install musca

How To Uninstall musca on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove musca

musca Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/musca
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/51
/usr/lib/.build-id/51/41221a91ee09c3a6490713d497e1c6d0eedb0c
/usr/share/doc/musca
/usr/share/doc/musca/gpl.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/musca.1.gz
/usr/share/xsessions/musca.desktop

References

musca website

Summary

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