How To Install tktray on Fedora 34

tktray is System Tray Icon Support for Tk on X11

Introduction

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

What is tktray

Tktray is an extension that is able to create system tray icons. It follows http up the system tray manager.

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

Install tktray 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 tktray using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install tktray

Install tktray 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 tktray using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tktray

How To Uninstall tktray on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove tktray

tktray Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c5
/usr/lib/.build-id/c5/84f1fe8b83ae489626e4b00567419a54cb30aa
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/tktray1.3.9
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/tktray1.3.9/libtktray1.3.9.so
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/tktray1.3.9/pkgIndex.tcl
/usr/share/doc/tktray
/usr/share/doc/tktray/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/tktray/license.terms
/usr/share/doc/tktray/tktray.html
/usr/share/man/mann/tktray.n.gz

References

Summary

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