How To Install cinnamon-session on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install cinnamon-session in Fedora 36. cinnamon-session is Cinnamon session manager

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cinnamon-session on Fedora 36.

What is cinnamon-session

Cinnamon-session manages a Cinnamon desktop or GDM login session. It starts up the other core components and handles logout and saving the session.

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

Install cinnamon-session 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 cinnamon-session using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cinnamon-session

Install cinnamon-session 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 cinnamon-session using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cinnamon-session

How To Uninstall cinnamon-session on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the cinnamon-session package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove cinnamon-session

cinnamon-session Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/cinnamon-session
/usr/bin/cinnamon-session-quit
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/12
/usr/lib/.build-id/12/df409f80f463ea10d6c0c75f23550ee9b4e225
/usr/lib/.build-id/67
/usr/lib/.build-id/67/e0b31b790388bdafa3a0a38873106e9187a47a
/usr/lib/.build-id/c3
/usr/lib/.build-id/c3/ef4a4ff95f2ce17370038ec17c11f608f91a9d
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8/ee984d6cd0de94124156f9169a5e7e8084fb76
/usr/libexec/cinnamon-session-check-accelerated
/usr/libexec/cinnamon-session-check-accelerated-helper
/usr/share/cinnamon-session
/usr/share/cinnamon-session/csm-inhibit-dialog.glade
/usr/share/cinnamon-session/hardware-compatibility
/usr/share/doc/cinnamon-session
/usr/share/doc/cinnamon-session/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/cinnamon-session/README
/usr/share/doc/cinnamon-session/dbus/cinnamon-session.html
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.cinnamon.SessionManager.gschema.xml
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/cinnamon-session-properties.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/cinnamon-session-properties.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/cinnamon-session-properties.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/cinnamon-session-properties.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/cinnamon-session-properties.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/cinnamon-session-properties.svg
/usr/share/licenses/cinnamon-session
/usr/share/licenses/cinnamon-session/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/cinnamon-session-quit.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/cinnamon-session.1.gz

References

Summary

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