How To Install hikari on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install hikari in Fedora 36. hikari is Stacking Wayland compositor with tiling capabilities

Introduction

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

What is `hikari`

Hikari is a stacking Wayland compositor with additional tiling capabilities, it is heavily inspired by the Calm Window manager (cwm(1)). Its core concepts are views, groups, sheets and the workspace.

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

Install hikari 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 hikari using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install hikari

Install hikari 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 hikari using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install hikari

How To Uninstall hikari on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove hikari

hikari Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/hikari
/etc/hikari/hikari.conf
/etc/pam.d/hikari-unlocker
/usr/bin/hikari
/usr/bin/hikari-unlocker
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8/7b3cb7c2667da1af203ed63f7311fc07095168
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8/00cacbf14bd7f5a3008cb7a3630ebeec656b01
/usr/share/backgrounds/hikari
/usr/share/backgrounds/hikari/hikari_wallpaper.png
/usr/share/doc/hikari
/usr/share/doc/hikari/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/hikari
/usr/share/licenses/hikari/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/hikari.1.gz
/usr/share/wayland-sessions/hikari.desktop

References

hikari website

Summary

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