How To Install wdisplays on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wdisplays on Fedora 34.
What is wdisplays
wdisplays is a graphical application for configuring displays in Wayland compositors. It borrows some code from kanshi. It should work in any compositor that implements the wlr-output-management-unstable-v1 protocol, including sway. The goal of this project is to allow precise adjustment of display settings in kiosks, digital signage, and other elaborate multi-monitor setups.
We can use yum or dnf to install wdisplays on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wdisplays.
Install wdisplays 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 wdisplays using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install wdisplays
Install wdisplays 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 wdisplays using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install wdisplays
How To Uninstall wdisplays on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the wdisplays package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove wdisplays
wdisplays Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/wdisplays
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/32
/usr/lib/.build-id/32/5a6546dbd57d9f3d396dd58594e92ff623d2e7
/usr/share/applications/network.cycles.wdisplays.desktop
/usr/share/doc/wdisplays
/usr/share/doc/wdisplays/README.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/wdisplays.svg
/usr/share/licenses/wdisplays
/usr/share/licenses/wdisplays/CC-BY-SA-4.0.txt
/usr/share/licenses/wdisplays/CC0-1.0.txt
/usr/share/licenses/wdisplays/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt
/usr/share/licenses/wdisplays/MIT.txt
/usr/bin/wdisplays
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b2
/usr/lib/.build-id/b2/3805ddd776856275a0f59ff08c50e049417694
/usr/share/applications/network.cycles.wdisplays.desktop
/usr/share/doc/wdisplays
/usr/share/doc/wdisplays/README.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/wdisplays.svg
/usr/share/licenses/wdisplays
/usr/share/licenses/wdisplays/CC-BY-SA-4.0.txt
/usr/share/licenses/wdisplays/CC0-1.0.txt
/usr/share/licenses/wdisplays/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt
/usr/share/licenses/wdisplays/MIT.txt
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wdisplays on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.