How To Install volumeicon on Fedora 34

volumeicon is Lightweight volume control for the system tray

Introduction

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

What is `volumeicon`

Volume Icon aims to be a lightweight volume control that sits in your system tray. Features * Change volume by scrolling on the systray icon * Ability to choose which channel to control * Configurable stepsize * Several icon themes * Configurable external mixer * Volume slider * Hotkey support

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

Install volumeicon 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 volumeicon using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install volumeicon

Install volumeicon 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 volumeicon using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install volumeicon

How To Uninstall volumeicon on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove volumeicon

volumeicon Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/xdg/autostart/volumeicon.desktop
/usr/bin/volumeicon
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0/80f9bfe55d0ad12c20989514268d23e8806d20
/usr/share/doc/volumeicon
/usr/share/doc/volumeicon/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/volumeicon/ChangeLog
/usr/share/licenses/volumeicon
/usr/share/licenses/volumeicon/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/volumeicon.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/volumeicon.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/volumeicon.mo
/usr/share/volumeicon
/usr/share/volumeicon/gui
/usr/share/volumeicon/gui/appicon.svg
/usr/share/volumeicon/gui/preferences.ui
/usr/share/volumeicon/icons
/usr/share/volumeicon/icons/Black Gnome
/usr/share/volumeicon/icons/Black Gnome/1.png
/usr/share/volumeicon/icons/Black Gnome/2.png
/usr/share/volumeicon/icons/Black Gnome/3.png
/usr/share/volumeicon/icons/Black Gnome/4.png
/usr/share/volumeicon/icons/Black Gnome/5.png
/usr/share/volumeicon/icons/Black Gnome/6.png
/usr/share/volumeicon/icons/Black Gnome/7.png
/usr/share/volumeicon/icons/Black Gnome/8.png
/usr/share/volumeicon/icons/Blue Bar
/usr/share/volumeicon/icons/Blue Bar/1.png
/usr/share/volumeicon/icons/Blue Bar/2.png
/usr/share/volumeicon/icons/Blue Bar/3.png
/usr/share/volumeicon/icons/Blue Bar/4.png
/usr/share/volumeicon/icons/Blue Bar/5.png
/usr/share/volumeicon/icons/Blue Bar/6.png
/usr/share/volumeicon/icons/Blue Bar/7.png
/usr/share/volumeicon/icons/Blue Bar/8.png
/usr/share/volumeicon/icons/White Gnome
/usr/share/volumeicon/icons/White Gnome/1.png
/usr/share/volumeicon/icons/White Gnome/2.png
/usr/share/volumeicon/icons/White Gnome/3.png
/usr/share/volumeicon/icons/White Gnome/4.png
/usr/share/volumeicon/icons/White Gnome/5.png
/usr/share/volumeicon/icons/White Gnome/6.png
/usr/share/volumeicon/icons/White Gnome/7.png
/usr/share/volumeicon/icons/White Gnome/8.png
/usr/share/volumeicon/icons/tango
/usr/share/volumeicon/icons/tango/1.png
/usr/share/volumeicon/icons/tango/2.png
/usr/share/volumeicon/icons/tango/3.png
/usr/share/volumeicon/icons/tango/4.png
/usr/share/volumeicon/icons/tango/5.png
/usr/share/volumeicon/icons/tango/6.png
/usr/share/volumeicon/icons/tango/7.png
/usr/share/volumeicon/icons/tango/8.png

References

volumeicon website

Summary

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