How To Install wapanel on Fedora 34

wapanel is Desktop-dedicated wayland bar for wayfire and other wlroots based compositors Desktop-dedicated wayland bar for wayfire and other wlroots based compositors

Introduction

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

What is `wapanel`

Simple panel/status bar/task bar for your custom stacking Wayland-based desktop. Documentation Features * Good configurability * Config hot reload * Exposed API for writing custom applets * Custom themes with CSS wapanel 1.0.2 1.fc34 x86_64 279 k wapanel-1.0.2-1.fc34.src.rpm updates Desktop-dedicated wayland bar for wayfire and other wlroots based compositors https MIT Simple panel/status bar/task bar for your custom stacking Wayland-based desktop. Documentation Features * Good configurability * Config hot reload * Exposed API for writing custom applets * Custom themes with CSS

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

Install wapanel 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 wapanel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install wapanel

Install wapanel 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 wapanel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install wapanel

How To Uninstall wapanel on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove wapanel

wapanel Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/wapanel
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0c
/usr/lib/.build-id/0c/88f42cb6769069bda7a33a45ebafa62dbd6fd4
/usr/lib/.build-id/28
/usr/lib/.build-id/28/7b7c42f7de1ba5d11d5180166805e5c86bf578
/usr/lib/.build-id/31
/usr/lib/.build-id/31/83ee91c3fed6dcd8e4711bbea90b3a60a29010
/usr/lib/.build-id/3c
/usr/lib/.build-id/3c/bf6d411fb55ffa7a4f778858ff3289957da8df
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e/fc2e33d68210184adce64266c6cadc1dc78362
/usr/lib/.build-id/86
/usr/lib/.build-id/86/80d943ca6812ebcfeb42cbc09df6e6c4dc72be
/usr/lib/.build-id/a5
/usr/lib/.build-id/a5/3e9844098b0a2f87df14b2299860bcf5b42e57
/usr/lib64/wapanel
/usr/lib64/wapanel/applets
/usr/lib64/wapanel/applets/libwapanel-applet-activator.so
/usr/lib64/wapanel/applets/libwapanel-applet-app-finder.so
/usr/lib64/wapanel/applets/libwapanel-applet-clock.so
/usr/lib64/wapanel/applets/libwapanel-applet-separator.so
/usr/lib64/wapanel/applets/libwapanel-applet-task-switcher.so
/usr/lib64/wapanel/applets/libwapanel-applet-volume-control.so
/usr/share/doc/wapanel
/usr/share/doc/wapanel/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/wapanel
/usr/share/licenses/wapanel/3RD_PARTY_LICENSES
/usr/share/licenses/wapanel/LICENSE
/usr/share/wapanel
/usr/share/wapanel/icons
/usr/share/wapanel/icons/hicolor
/usr/share/wapanel/icons/hicolor/scalable
/usr/share/wapanel/icons/hicolor/scalable/actions
/usr/share/wapanel/icons/hicolor/scalable/actions/wapa-account.svg
/usr/share/wapanel/icons/hicolor/scalable/actions/wapa-cog.svg
/usr/share/wapanel/icons/hicolor/scalable/actions/wapa-folder.svg
/usr/share/wapanel/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps
/usr/share/wapanel/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/wapa-logo-nocolor-dark.svg
/usr/share/wapanel/wapanel.css
/usr/share/wapanel/wapanel.toml
/usr/bin/wapanel
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c/519e50227f76c9cdc7437357ce5fbc179b9dba
/usr/lib/.build-id/38
/usr/lib/.build-id/38/3542747d743994c61199841ac8219c27c84810
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f/fe82476b2a27df637fcc6bb2379f853d9e2446
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6/3fddb6fadc792922d5f7305ed2d0b3715a42d9
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7/433d1fdcbe7534072bd05d89f4ce3d06b42539
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef/281db1f23f46df73bbed6ac625e59a975c1b90
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff/86c2b1352bd3917b8b3ab35e859777852a1ceb
/usr/lib/wapanel
/usr/lib/wapanel/applets
/usr/lib/wapanel/applets/libwapanel-applet-activator.so
/usr/lib/wapanel/applets/libwapanel-applet-app-finder.so
/usr/lib/wapanel/applets/libwapanel-applet-clock.so
/usr/lib/wapanel/applets/libwapanel-applet-separator.so
/usr/lib/wapanel/applets/libwapanel-applet-task-switcher.so
/usr/lib/wapanel/applets/libwapanel-applet-volume-control.so
/usr/share/doc/wapanel
/usr/share/doc/wapanel/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/wapanel
/usr/share/licenses/wapanel/3RD_PARTY_LICENSES
/usr/share/licenses/wapanel/LICENSE
/usr/share/wapanel
/usr/share/wapanel/icons
/usr/share/wapanel/icons/hicolor
/usr/share/wapanel/icons/hicolor/scalable
/usr/share/wapanel/icons/hicolor/scalable/actions
/usr/share/wapanel/icons/hicolor/scalable/actions/wapa-account.svg
/usr/share/wapanel/icons/hicolor/scalable/actions/wapa-cog.svg
/usr/share/wapanel/icons/hicolor/scalable/actions/wapa-folder.svg
/usr/share/wapanel/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps
/usr/share/wapanel/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/wapa-logo-nocolor-dark.svg
/usr/share/wapanel/wapanel.css
/usr/share/wapanel/wapanel.toml

References

[wapanel website](https://github.com/Firstbober/wapanel https://github.com/Firstbober/wapanel)

Summary

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