How To Install light-locker on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install light-locker in Fedora 36. light-locker is Simple session-locker for lightdm

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install light-locker on Fedora 36.

What is `light-locker`

light-locker is a simple locker (forked from gnome-screensaver) that aims to have simple, sane, secure defaults and be well integrated with the desktop while not carrying any desktop- specific dependencies. It relies on lightdm for locking and unlocking your session.

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

Install light-locker 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 light-locker using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install light-locker

Install light-locker 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 light-locker using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install light-locker

How To Uninstall light-locker on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the light-locker package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove light-locker

light-locker Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/xdg/autostart/light-locker.desktop
/usr/bin/light-locker
/usr/bin/light-locker-command
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0f
/usr/lib/.build-id/0f/bc9a60dad5128c1beee4fb814da843dd32f63b
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2/8fbe0dc9896e28f34c8ea1f11a37bad34b368f
/usr/share/doc/light-locker
/usr/share/doc/light-locker/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/light-locker/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/light-locker/README.md
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/apps.light-locker.gschema.xml
/usr/share/licenses/light-locker
/usr/share/licenses/light-locker/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/an/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/be@latin/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/br/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/crh/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/dz/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@shaw/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr_FR/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/ku/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/mai/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/mg/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/mn/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/my/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl_NL/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/ps/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/xh/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/light-locker.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/light-locker-command.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/light-locker.1.gz

References

light-locker website

Summary

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