How To Install spectrwm on Fedora 34

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Introduction

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

What is spectrwm

Spectrwm is a small dynamic tiling window manager for X11. It tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can be used for much more important stuff. It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a language to do any configuration. It was written by hackers for hackers and it strives to be small, compact and fast. spectrwm 3.4.1 2.fc34 x86_64 113 k spectrwm-3.4.1-2.fc34.src.rpm fedora Minimalist tiling window manager written in C https ISC Spectrwm is a small dynamic tiling window manager for X11. It tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can be used for much more important stuff. It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a language to do any configuration. It was written by hackers for hackers and it strives to be small, compact and fast.

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

Install spectrwm 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 spectrwm using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install spectrwm

Install spectrwm 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 spectrwm using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install spectrwm

How To Uninstall spectrwm on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove spectrwm

spectrwm Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/spectrwm.conf
/usr/bin/scrotwm
/usr/bin/spectrwm
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/20
/usr/lib/.build-id/20/5c3a26e154504c4c6a2a2d460ae97ba1cf2b30
/usr/lib/.build-id/b4
/usr/lib/.build-id/b4/2ee105427aafe3cc70f2f539d2230fd4b36e60
/usr/lib64/libswmhack.so
/usr/lib64/libswmhack.so.0
/usr/lib64/libswmhack.so.0.0
/usr/share/doc/spectrwm
/usr/share/doc/spectrwm/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/spectrwm/README.md
/usr/share/doc/spectrwm/baraction.sh
/usr/share/doc/spectrwm/initscreen.sh
/usr/share/doc/spectrwm/screenshot.sh
/usr/share/licenses/spectrwm
/usr/share/licenses/spectrwm/LICENSE-LD_PRELOAD
/usr/share/licenses/spectrwm/LICENSE-dwm
/usr/share/licenses/spectrwm/LICENSE.md
/usr/share/man/man1/scrotwm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/spectrwm.1.gz
/usr/share/spectrwm
/usr/share/spectrwm/spectrwm_cz.conf
/usr/share/spectrwm/spectrwm_es.conf
/usr/share/spectrwm/spectrwm_fr.conf
/usr/share/spectrwm/spectrwm_fr_ch.conf
/usr/share/spectrwm/spectrwm_se.conf
/usr/share/spectrwm/spectrwm_us.conf
/usr/share/xsessions/spectrwm.desktop
/etc/spectrwm.conf
/usr/bin/scrotwm
/usr/bin/spectrwm
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/47
/usr/lib/.build-id/47/c2e9beea77776ecefa0f3be5f45b7b8e18167f
/usr/lib/.build-id/a7
/usr/lib/.build-id/a7/377ee94ba4c6f46a983e02f9056b10cefdb813
/usr/lib/libswmhack.so
/usr/lib/libswmhack.so.0
/usr/lib/libswmhack.so.0.0
/usr/share/doc/spectrwm
/usr/share/doc/spectrwm/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/spectrwm/README.md
/usr/share/doc/spectrwm/baraction.sh
/usr/share/doc/spectrwm/initscreen.sh
/usr/share/doc/spectrwm/screenshot.sh
/usr/share/licenses/spectrwm
/usr/share/licenses/spectrwm/LICENSE-LD_PRELOAD
/usr/share/licenses/spectrwm/LICENSE-dwm
/usr/share/licenses/spectrwm/LICENSE.md
/usr/share/man/man1/scrotwm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/spectrwm.1.gz
/usr/share/spectrwm
/usr/share/spectrwm/spectrwm_cz.conf
/usr/share/spectrwm/spectrwm_es.conf
/usr/share/spectrwm/spectrwm_fr.conf
/usr/share/spectrwm/spectrwm_fr_ch.conf
/usr/share/spectrwm/spectrwm_se.conf
/usr/share/spectrwm/spectrwm_us.conf
/usr/share/xsessions/spectrwm.desktop

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Summary

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