How To Install xmonad on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xmonad on Fedora 34.
What is xmonad
Xmonad is a tiling window manager for X. Windows are arranged automatically to tile the screen without gaps or overlap, maximising screen use. All features of the window manager are accessible from the keyboard optional. xmonad is written and extensible in Haskell. Custom layout algorithms, and other extensions, may be written by the user in config files. Layouts are applied dynamically, and different layouts may be used on each workspace. Xinerama is fully supported, allowing windows to be tiled on several screens. This is a meta-package that installs xmonad-basic and ghc-xmonad-contrib-devel, allowing xmonad to be customized with “~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs”. To use xmonad with GNOME/MATE, please install xmonad-mate.
We can use yum or dnf to install xmonad on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xmonad.
Install xmonad 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 xmonad using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install xmonad
Install xmonad 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 xmonad using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install xmonad
How To Uninstall xmonad on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the xmonad package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove xmonad
xmonad Package Contents on Fedora 34
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xmonad on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.