How To Install gnome-flashback on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-flashback on Fedora 36.
What is gnome-flashback
GNOME Flashback is a session for GNOME 3 which was initially called “GNOME Fallback”, and shipped as a stand-alone session in Debian and Ubuntu. It provides a similar user experience to the GNOME 2.x series sessions. The differences to the MATE project is that GNOME Flashback uses GTK+ 3 and tries to follow the current GNOME development by integrating recent changes of the GNOME libraries. The development currently lags behind a little but a lot of progress has been made and most importantly many open bugs have been fixed.
We can use yum or dnf to install gnome-flashback on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gnome-flashback.
Install gnome-flashback 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 gnome-flashback using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gnome-flashback
Install gnome-flashback 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 gnome-flashback using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gnome-flashback
How To Uninstall gnome-flashback on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the gnome-flashback package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gnome-flashback
gnome-flashback Package Contents on Fedora 36
/etc/pam.d/gnome-flashback
/etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-flashback-clipboard.desktop
/etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-flashback-media-keys.desktop
/etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-flashback-nm-applet.desktop
/etc/xdg/menus/gnome-flashback-applications.menu
/usr/bin/gnome-flashback
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/68
/usr/lib/.build-id/68/a0c83ab8d16e29f9b6677c528e377142986182
/usr/lib/.build-id/b0
/usr/lib/.build-id/b0/79641bb301269e05210f3ba93aaba32789827f
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7/276c39557cbc1b4eddf7132ca23d0a198031bc
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc/0adf978e6d9fe0f1a5a833772914b5e89fa058
/usr/lib/systemd/user/gnome-flashback.service
/usr/lib/systemd/user/gnome-flashback.target
/usr/lib/systemd/user/[email protected]
/usr/lib/systemd/user/[email protected]/session.conf
/usr/lib64/gnome-panel/modules/system_indicators.so
/usr/libexec/gnome-flashback-clipboard
/usr/libexec/gnome-flashback-media-keys
/usr/libexec/gnome-flashback-metacity
/usr/share/applications/gnome-flashback.desktop
/usr/share/desktop-directories/X-GNOME-Flashback-Settings-System.directory
/usr/share/desktop-directories/X-GNOME-Flashback-Settings.directory
/usr/share/doc/gnome-flashback
/usr/share/doc/gnome-flashback/NEWS
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/00_gnome-flashback.gschema.override
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.gnome-flashback.desktop.background.gschema.xml
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.gnome-flashback.desktop.enums.xml
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.gnome-flashback.desktop.gschema.xml
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.gnome-flashback.desktop.icons.gschema.xml
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.gnome-flashback.gschema.xml
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.gnome-flashback.keybindings.gschema.xml
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.gnome-flashback.system-indicators.input-sources.gschema.xml
/usr/share/gnome-control-center/keybindings/50-gnome-flashback-screenshots.xml
/usr/share/gnome-panel/layouts/gnome-flashback.layout
/usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/gnome-flashback-metacity.session
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-flashback
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-flashback/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-flashback.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-flashback.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-flashback.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-flashback.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-flashback.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-flashback.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-flashback.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-flashback.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-flashback.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-flashback.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-flashback.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-flashback.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-flashback.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-flashback.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-flashback.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-flashback.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-flashback.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-flashback.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-flashback.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-flashback.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-flashback.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-flashback.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-flashback.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-flashback.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-flashback.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-flashback.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-flashback.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-flashback.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-flashback.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-flashback.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-flashback.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-flashback.mo
/usr/share/xsessions/gnome-flashback-metacity.desktop
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-flashback on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).