How To Install wmsystemtray on Fedora 34

wmsystemtray is System tray (freedesktop.org systray protocol) as a Window Maker dock app

Introduction

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

What is wmsystemtray

wmsystemtray is a system tray using the freedesktop.org system tray protocol designed as a Window Maker dock app. It has the ability to display more than one dock window to make room for more tray icons, and the ability to scroll through the icons if more are present than will fit.

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

Install wmsystemtray 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 wmsystemtray using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install wmsystemtray

Install wmsystemtray 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 wmsystemtray using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install wmsystemtray

How To Uninstall wmsystemtray on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove wmsystemtray

wmsystemtray Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/wmsystemtray
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4d
/usr/lib/.build-id/4d/2eef5ee23fffe623820fb3ee566f21c8ad003c
/usr/share/doc/wmsystemtray
/usr/share/doc/wmsystemtray/ChangeLog
/usr/share/man/man1/wmsystemtray.1.gz

References

Summary

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