How To Install bspwm on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install bspwm in Fedora 36. bspwm is A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bspwm on Fedora 36.

What is bspwm

bspwm is a tiling window manager that represents windows as the leaves of a full binary tree. It only responds to X events, and the messages it receives on a dedicated socket. bspc is a program that writes messages on bspwm’s socket. bspwm doesn’t handle any keyboard or pointer inputs (e.g. sxhkd) is needed in order to translate keyboard and pointer events to bspc invocations.

We can use yum or dnf to install bspwm on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bspwm.

Install bspwm 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 bspwm using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bspwm

Install bspwm 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 bspwm using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bspwm

How To Uninstall bspwm on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove bspwm

bspwm Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/bspc
/usr/bin/bspwm
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/87
/usr/lib/.build-id/87/b87266c685464ca5314e25322337eed7f2d244
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6/b653827924f7bf94f083061d07e971566b06b2
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/bspc
/usr/share/doc/bspwm
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/INSTALL.md
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/MISC.md
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/README.md
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/TODO.md
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/bspwmrc
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/external_rules
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/external_rules/bspwmrc
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/external_rules/external_rules
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/overlapping_borders
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/overlapping_borders/bspwmrc
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/panel
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/panel/bspwmrc
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/panel/panel
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/panel/panel_bar
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/panel/panel_colors
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/panel/profile
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/panel/sxhkdrc
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/receptacles
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/receptacles/README.md
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/receptacles/extract_canvas
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/receptacles/induce_rules
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/sxhkdrc
/usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d/bspc.fish
/usr/share/licenses/bspwm
/usr/share/licenses/bspwm/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/bspc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/bspwm.1.gz
/usr/share/xsessions/bspwm.desktop
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_bspc

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bspwm on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).