How To Install dualscreen-mouse-utils on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dualscreen-mouse-utils
on Fedora 36.
What is dualscreen-mouse-utils
Utilities for use with old-school dual head setups twinview / one big desktop, but rather two X screens. mouse-switchscreen Change the mouse cursor from one screen to the other. Remembers the previous mouse position for each screen. mouse-wrapscreen If you have an xorg.conf where both X screens are “separated” on the X coordinates, then the mouse cursor cannot cross. Which is sometimes desired, and sometimes not. Using mouse-wrapscreen you can configure them to be “uncrossable”, and then run it in the background when you do want to be able to cross the cursor.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install dualscreen-mouse-utils
on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dualscreen-mouse-utils.
Install dualscreen-mouse-utils 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 dualscreen-mouse-utils
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dualscreen-mouse-utils
Install dualscreen-mouse-utils 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 dualscreen-mouse-utils
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dualscreen-mouse-utils
How To Uninstall dualscreen-mouse-utils on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the dualscreen-mouse-utils
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dualscreen-mouse-utils
dualscreen-mouse-utils Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/bin/mouse-switchscreen
/usr/bin/mouse-wrapscreen
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/72
/usr/lib/.build-id/72/afeec7af0a07e71a722162fe9a2f76c5ae030b
/usr/lib/.build-id/de
/usr/lib/.build-id/de/d8a8d72496c81aeb1554fb43e438e004f92213
/usr/share/doc/dualscreen-mouse-utils
/usr/share/doc/dualscreen-mouse-utils/README
/usr/share/doc/dualscreen-mouse-utils/gpl.txt
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dualscreen-mouse-utils
on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).