How To Install slim on Fedora 34

slim is Simple Login Manager Simple Login Manager

Introduction

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

What is slim

SLiM (Simple Login Manager) is a graphical login manager for X11. It aims to be simple, fast and independent from the various desktop environments. SLiM is based on latest stable release of Login.app by Per Lidén. In the distribution, slim may be called through a wrapper, slim-dynwm, which determines the available window managers using the freedesktop information and modifies the slim configuration file accordingly, before launching slim. slim 1.3.6 20.fc34 x86_64 135 k slim-1.3.6-20.fc34.src.rpm fedora Simple Login Manager http GPLv2+ SLiM (Simple Login Manager) is a graphical login manager for X11. It aims to be simple, fast and independent from the various desktop environments. SLiM is based on latest stable release of Login.app by Per Lidén. In the distribution, slim may be called through a wrapper, slim-dynwm, which determines the available window managers using the freedesktop information and modifies the slim configuration file accordingly, before launching slim.

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

Install slim 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 slim using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install slim

Install slim 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 slim using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install slim

How To Uninstall slim on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove slim

slim Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/logrotate.d/slim
/etc/pam.d/slim
/etc/slim.conf
/etc/tmpfiles.d/slim.conf
/usr/bin/slim
/usr/bin/slim-dynwm
/usr/bin/slimlock
/usr/bin/update_slim_wmlist
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0c
/usr/lib/.build-id/0c/018af1421f369fa27ea0c55c4139b66d2395b2
/usr/lib/.build-id/20
/usr/lib/.build-id/20/24849ee6474da274e8cd2384eddcdbff9e84de
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7/c5a14a7a8e338b2086197f67c5b6e6fdf5455d
/usr/lib/libslim.so.1.3.6
/usr/lib/systemd/system/slim.service
/usr/share/doc/slim
/usr/share/doc/slim/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/slim/README
/usr/share/doc/slim/README.Fedora
/usr/share/doc/slim/THEMES
/usr/share/doc/slim/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/slim
/usr/share/licenses/slim/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/slim.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/slimlock.1.gz
/usr/share/slim
/usr/share/slim/themes
/usr/share/slim/themes/default
/usr/share/slim/themes/default/background.jpg
/usr/share/slim/themes/default/panel.png
/usr/share/slim/themes/default/slim.theme
/var/run/slim
/etc/logrotate.d/slim
/etc/pam.d/slim
/etc/slim.conf
/etc/tmpfiles.d/slim.conf
/usr/bin/slim
/usr/bin/slim-dynwm
/usr/bin/slimlock
/usr/bin/update_slim_wmlist
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a/e250eb57eb02acfd4d3fc3c101c8eb9c3f181e
/usr/lib/.build-id/c2
/usr/lib/.build-id/c2/00fa6d58ed9a3f32262f204259e7326d2ba4e1
/usr/lib/.build-id/e9
/usr/lib/.build-id/e9/e7a2f5e2f6a2cfdc13a71e9945514326b705de
/usr/lib/systemd/system/slim.service
/usr/lib64/libslim.so.1.3.6
/usr/share/doc/slim
/usr/share/doc/slim/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/slim/README
/usr/share/doc/slim/README.Fedora
/usr/share/doc/slim/THEMES
/usr/share/doc/slim/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/slim
/usr/share/licenses/slim/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/slim.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/slimlock.1.gz
/usr/share/slim
/usr/share/slim/themes
/usr/share/slim/themes/default
/usr/share/slim/themes/default/background.jpg
/usr/share/slim/themes/default/panel.png
/usr/share/slim/themes/default/slim.theme
/var/run/slim

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Summary

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