How To Install lxsession on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install lxsession in Fedora 36. lxsession is Lightweight X11 session manager

Introduction

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

What is `lxsession`

LXSession is a standard-compliant X11 session manager with shutdown/ reboot/suspend support via systemd. In connection with gdm it also supports user switching. LXSession is derived from XSM and is developed as default X11 session manager of LXDE, the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment. Though being part of LXDE, it’s totally desktop-independent and only has few dependencies.

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

Install lxsession 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 lxsession using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lxsession

Install lxsession 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 lxsession using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lxsession

How To Uninstall lxsession on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove lxsession

lxsession Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/xdg/lxsession
/usr/bin/lxclipboard
/usr/bin/lxlock
/usr/bin/lxsession
/usr/bin/lxsession-db
/usr/bin/lxsession-default
/usr/bin/lxsession-default-apps
/usr/bin/lxsession-default-terminal
/usr/bin/lxsession-logout
/usr/bin/lxsession-xdg-autostart
/usr/bin/lxsettings-daemon
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/28
/usr/lib/.build-id/28/e40387cc26c973e840f315de18a394ff59cd0c
/usr/lib/.build-id/80
/usr/lib/.build-id/80/02de6e8b09254d48a3e446c42a59bc55e2c008
/usr/lib/.build-id/81
/usr/lib/.build-id/81/d7836100fd8e5b6a626f48ae88ed727f12693b
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f/7689b01d9fb20e30a01071a04b19fe43847a9c
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3/d898670552d50f4d7a2e9184a97161aad0b85f
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6/c9e51449ac7637efca44cd8e4b96ab924b03e9
/usr/lib/.build-id/ab
/usr/lib/.build-id/ab/0a3aeb1bc6ac28b4f8cbaa93713cc4cfb5a363
/usr/libexec/lxsession
/usr/libexec/lxsession/lxsession-xsettings
/usr/share/applications/lxsession-default-apps.desktop
/usr/share/doc/lxsession
/usr/share/doc/lxsession/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/lxsession/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/lxsession/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/lxsession/README
/usr/share/doc/lxsession/desktop.conf.example
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/am/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/fo/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/frp/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/lg/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/ps/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/tt_RU/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/ur/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/ur_PK/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/lxsession.mo
/usr/share/lxsession
/usr/share/lxsession/images
/usr/share/lxsession/images/gnome-session-hibernate.png
/usr/share/lxsession/images/gnome-session-reboot.png
/usr/share/lxsession/images/gnome-session-suspend.png
/usr/share/lxsession/images/gnome-session-switch.png
/usr/share/lxsession/images/system-log-out.png
/usr/share/lxsession/images/system-shutdown.png
/usr/share/lxsession/ui
/usr/share/lxsession/ui/lxsession-default-apps.ui
/usr/share/man/man1/lxclipboard.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lxlock.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lxpolkit.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lxsession-db.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lxsession-default-apps.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lxsession-default-terminal.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lxsession-default.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lxsession-edit.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lxsession-logout.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lxsession-xdg-autostart.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lxsession.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lxsettings-daemon.1.gz

References

lxsession website

Summary

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