How To Install xcompmgr on Fedora 34

xcompmgr is X11 composite manager

Introduction

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

What is xcompmgr

xcompmgr is a sample compositing manager for X servers supporting the XFIXES, DAMAGE, and COMPOSITE extensions. It enables basic eye-candy effects

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

Install xcompmgr 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 xcompmgr using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install xcompmgr

Install xcompmgr 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 xcompmgr using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install xcompmgr

How To Uninstall xcompmgr on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove xcompmgr

xcompmgr Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/xcompmgr
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb/59e7880fc7df85ea4b585b997de8988061e1d2
/usr/share/doc/xcompmgr
/usr/share/doc/xcompmgr/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/xcompmgr/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/xcompmgr
/usr/share/licenses/xcompmgr/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/xcompmgr.1.gz

References

Summary

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