How To Install easystroke on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install easystroke in Fedora 36. easystroke is Gesture-recognition application for X11

Introduction

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

What is `easystroke`

Easystroke is a gesture-recognition application for X11. Gestures or strokes are movements that you make with you mouse (or your pen, finger etc.) while holding down a specific mouse button. Easystroke will execute certain actions if it recognizes the stroke; currently easystroke can emulate key presses, execute shell commands, hold down modifiers and emulate a scroll wheel.

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

Install easystroke 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 easystroke using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install easystroke

Install easystroke 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 easystroke using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install easystroke

How To Uninstall easystroke on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove easystroke

easystroke Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/easystroke
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b/dd293a02cbf96f12bc1b9481bd1c8d77fa7bf3
/usr/share/appdata/easystroke.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/easystroke.desktop
/usr/share/doc/easystroke
/usr/share/doc/easystroke/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/easystroke/changelog
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/easystroke.svg
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/easystroke.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/easystroke.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/easystroke.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/easystroke.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/easystroke.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/easystroke.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/easystroke.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/easystroke.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/easystroke.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/easystroke.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/easystroke.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/easystroke.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/easystroke.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/easystroke.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/easystroke.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/easystroke.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/easystroke.mo

References

easystroke website

Summary

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