How To Install dualscreen-mouse-utils on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install dualscreen-mouse-utils in Fedora 36. dualscreen-mouse-utils is Utilities for use with dual head setups using independent screens

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/).