How To Install xpenguins on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xpenguins on Fedora 34.
What is xpenguins
XPenguins animates a friendly family of penguins in your root window. They drop in from the top of the screen, walk along the tops of your windows, up the side of your windows, levitate, skateboard, and do other similarly exciting things. XPenguins is now themeable so if you are bored of penguins, try something else. The themes that come with this package are “Penguins”, “Classic Penguins”, “Big Penguins”, “Turtles” and “Bill”. XPenguins works by drawing on the X root window. This might not have the desired effect in modern desktop environments like Gnome where the root window is not visible.
We can use yum or dnf to install xpenguins on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xpenguins.
Install xpenguins 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 xpenguins using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install xpenguins
Install xpenguins 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 xpenguins using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install xpenguins
How To Uninstall xpenguins on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the xpenguins package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove xpenguins
xpenguins Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/xpenguins
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/22
/usr/lib/.build-id/22/dec178757133e73168d8b8a5f0dba53d171705
/usr/share/applications/xpenguins.desktop
/usr/share/doc/xpenguins
/usr/share/doc/xpenguins/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/xpenguins/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/xpenguins/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/xpenguins/README.utf8
/usr/share/doc/xpenguins/lay-out-frames.scm
/usr/share/doc/xpenguins/resize-frames.scm
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/xpenguins.png
/usr/share/man/man1/xpenguins.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/xpenguins.appdata.xml
/usr/share/xpenguins
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Big_Penguins
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Big_Penguins/about
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Big_Penguins/angel.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Big_Penguins/ballooner.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Big_Penguins/bigpenguin.png
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Big_Penguins/bomber.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Big_Penguins/climber.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Big_Penguins/climber_skateboarder.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Big_Penguins/config
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Big_Penguins/digger.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Big_Penguins/exit.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Big_Penguins/explosion.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Big_Penguins/faller.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Big_Penguins/floater.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Big_Penguins/reader.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Big_Penguins/skateboarder.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Big_Penguins/splat.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Big_Penguins/superpenguin.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Big_Penguins/tumbler.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Big_Penguins/walker.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Big_Penguins/zapped.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Bill
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Bill/about
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Bill/bill.png
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Bill/carrier.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Bill/climber.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Bill/config
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Bill/explosion.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Bill/faller.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Bill/hacker.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Bill/splat.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Bill/walker.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Classic_Penguins
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Classic_Penguins/about
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Classic_Penguins/bomber.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Classic_Penguins/climber.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Classic_Penguins/config
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Classic_Penguins/explosion.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Classic_Penguins/faller.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Classic_Penguins/floater.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Classic_Penguins/sitter.png
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Classic_Penguins/tumbler.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Classic_Penguins/walker.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Penguins
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Penguins/about
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Penguins/angel.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Penguins/ballooner.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Penguins/bomber.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Penguins/climber.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Penguins/climber_skateboarder.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Penguins/config
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Penguins/digger.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Penguins/exit.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Penguins/explosion.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Penguins/faller.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Penguins/floater.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Penguins/penguin.png
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Penguins/reader.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Penguins/skateboarder.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Penguins/splat.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Penguins/superpenguin.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Penguins/tumbler.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Penguins/walker.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Penguins/zapped.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Turtles
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Turtles/about
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Turtles/bomber.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Turtles/climber.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Turtles/config
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Turtles/explosion.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Turtles/faller.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Turtles/floater.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Turtles/tumbler.xpm
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Turtles/turtle.png
/usr/share/xpenguins/themes/Turtles/walker.xpm
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xpenguins on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.