How To Install pasystray on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pasystray on Fedora 34.
What is pasystray
A replacement for the deprecated padevchooser. pasystray allows setting the default PulseAudio source/sink and moving streams on the fly between sources/sinks without restarting the client applications.
We can use yum or dnf to install pasystray on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pasystray.
Install pasystray 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 pasystray using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install pasystray
Install pasystray 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 pasystray using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install pasystray
How To Uninstall pasystray on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the pasystray package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove pasystray
pasystray Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/xdg/autostart/pasystray.desktop
/usr/bin/pasystray
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/af
/usr/lib/.build-id/af/ac05be4f6d4768651aee1071360d769961fef3
/usr/share/applications/pasystray.desktop
/usr/share/doc/pasystray
/usr/share/doc/pasystray/README.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/pasystray.svg
/usr/share/licenses/pasystray
/usr/share/licenses/pasystray/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/pasystray.1.gz
/usr/share/pasystray
/usr/share/pasystray/pasystray.gtk3.glade
/usr/share/pixmaps/pasystray.png
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pasystray on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.