How To Install pekwm on Fedora 34

pekwm is A small and flexible window manager

Introduction

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

What is pekwm

Pekwm is a window manager that once up on a time was based on the aewm++ window manager, but it has evolved enough that it no longer resembles aewm++ at all. It has a much expanded feature-set, including window grouping (similar to ion, pwm, or fluxbox), autoproperties, xinerama, keygrabber that supports keychains, and much more. * Lightweight and Unobtrusive, a window manager shouldn’t be noticed. * Very configurable, we all work and think in different ways. * Automatic properties, for all the lazy people, make things appear as they should when starting applications. * Chainable Keygrabber, usability for everyone.

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

Install pekwm 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 pekwm using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pekwm

Install pekwm 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 pekwm using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pekwm

How To Uninstall pekwm on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove pekwm

pekwm Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/pekwm/autoproperties
/etc/pekwm/autoproperties_typerules
/etc/pekwm/config
/etc/pekwm/config_system
/etc/pekwm/keys
/etc/pekwm/menu
/etc/pekwm/mouse
/etc/pekwm/mouse_click
/etc/pekwm/mouse_sloppy
/etc/pekwm/mouse_system
/etc/pekwm/start
/etc/pekwm/vars
/usr/bin/pekwm
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/44
/usr/lib/.build-id/44/25f4d10f99563275e3cea5c8c99fedfed5202b
/usr/share/doc/pekwm
/usr/share/doc/pekwm/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/pekwm/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/pekwm/ChangeLog.aewm++
/usr/share/doc/pekwm/ChangeLog.until-0.1.6
/usr/share/doc/pekwm/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/pekwm/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/pekwm/README
/usr/share/doc/pekwm/contrib
/usr/share/doc/pekwm/contrib/README
/usr/share/doc/pekwm/contrib/check.png
/usr/share/doc/pekwm/contrib/pekwm_autoprop.pl
/usr/share/doc/pekwm/contrib/pekwm_menu_config.pl
/usr/share/doc/pekwm/contrib/pekwm_menu_config.pl.vars
/usr/share/doc/pekwm/contrib/uncheck.png
/usr/share/man/man1/pekwm.1.gz
/usr/share/pekwm
/usr/share/pekwm/scripts
/usr/share/pekwm/scripts/pekwm_screenshot.sh
/usr/share/pekwm/scripts/pekwm_themeset.sh
/usr/share/pekwm/scripts/pekwm_ws_menu.sh
/usr/share/pekwm/themes
/usr/share/pekwm/themes/default
/usr/share/pekwm/themes/default-plain
/usr/share/pekwm/themes/default-plain/theme
/usr/share/pekwm/themes/default/arrow.png
/usr/share/pekwm/themes/default/arrow_focus.png
/usr/share/pekwm/themes/default/bottom-border.png
/usr/share/pekwm/themes/default/bottom-border_unfocus.png
/usr/share/pekwm/themes/default/bottom-left.png
/usr/share/pekwm/themes/default/bottom-left_unfocus.png
/usr/share/pekwm/themes/default/bottom-right.png
/usr/share/pekwm/themes/default/bottom-right_unfocus.png
/usr/share/pekwm/themes/default/button.png
/usr/share/pekwm/themes/default/button_hover.png
/usr/share/pekwm/themes/default/button_press.png
/usr/share/pekwm/themes/default/button_unfocus.png
/usr/share/pekwm/themes/default/item.png
/usr/share/pekwm/themes/default/item_focus.png
/usr/share/pekwm/themes/default/left-border.png
/usr/share/pekwm/themes/default/left-border_unfocus.png
/usr/share/pekwm/themes/default/menu-bottom.png
/usr/share/pekwm/themes/default/menu-bottom_unfocus.png
/usr/share/pekwm/themes/default/menuline.png
/usr/share/pekwm/themes/default/right-border.png
/usr/share/pekwm/themes/default/right-border_unfocus.png
/usr/share/pekwm/themes/default/tab-separator.png
/usr/share/pekwm/themes/default/tab-separator_unfocus.png
/usr/share/pekwm/themes/default/theme
/usr/share/pekwm/themes/default/title.png
/usr/share/pekwm/themes/default/title_unfocus.png
/usr/share/pekwm/themes/default/top-border.png
/usr/share/pekwm/themes/default/top-border_unfocus.png
/usr/share/pekwm/themes/default/top-left.png
/usr/share/pekwm/themes/default/top-left_unfocus.png
/usr/share/pekwm/themes/default/top-right.png
/usr/share/pekwm/themes/default/top-right_unfocus.png
/usr/share/xsessions/pekwm.desktop

References

Summary

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