How To Install xisxwayland on Fedora 34

xisxwayland is Tool to check if the X server is XWayland

Introduction

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

What is `xisxwayland`

xisxwayland is a tool to be used within shell scripts to determine whether the X server in use is Xwayland. It exits with status 0 if the server is an Xwayland server and 1 otherwise.

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

Install xisxwayland 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 xisxwayland using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install xisxwayland

Install xisxwayland 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 xisxwayland using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install xisxwayland

How To Uninstall xisxwayland on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove xisxwayland

xisxwayland Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/xisxwayland
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/66
/usr/lib/.build-id/66/364e30479de0f6fbff6d9b16c2d374a55916e8
/usr/share/licenses/xisxwayland
/usr/share/licenses/xisxwayland/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/xisxwayland.1.gz

References

xisxwayland website

Summary

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