How To Install bbkeys on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bbkeys on Fedora 36.
What is bbkeys
bbkeys is a configurable key-grabber designed for the blackbox window manager which is written by Brad Hughes. It is based on the bbtools object code created by John Kennis and re-uses some of the blackbox window manager classes as well. bbkeys is easily configurable via directly hand-editing the user’s ~/.bbkeysrc file, or by using the GUI total blackbox configurator, bbconf.
We can use yum or dnf to install bbkeys on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bbkeys.
Install bbkeys on Fedora 36 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install bbkeys using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install bbkeys
Install bbkeys on Fedora 36 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install bbkeys using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install bbkeys
How To Uninstall bbkeys on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the bbkeys package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove bbkeys
bbkeys Package Contents on Fedora 36
/etc/bbkeys
/etc/bbkeys/bbkeysrc
/etc/bbkeys/defaultStyle
/usr/bin/bbkeys
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e9
/usr/lib/.build-id/e9/0bbc2432bc7fcaeed2aaa1f05ecacd432320a8
/usr/share/doc/bbkeys
/usr/share/doc/bbkeys/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/bbkeys/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/bbkeys/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/bbkeys/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/bbkeys/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/bbkeys/README
/usr/share/doc/bbkeys/TODO
/usr/share/man/man1/bbkeys.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/bbkeysrc.5.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bbkeys on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).
