How To Install nitrogen on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install nitrogen in Fedora 36. nitrogen is Background browser and setter for X windows

Introduction

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

What is nitrogen

A background browser and setter for X windows that can be used in two modes a recall mode to be used in start up scripts, uses the freedesktop.org standard for thumbnails, can set the GNOME background, command line set modes for use in scripts, inotify monitoring of browse directory, lazy loading of thumbnails to conserve memory and an ‘automatic’ set mode which determines the best mode to set an image based on its size.

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

Install nitrogen 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 nitrogen using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nitrogen

Install nitrogen 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 nitrogen using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nitrogen

How To Uninstall nitrogen on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove nitrogen

nitrogen Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/nitrogen
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8/8a9fd6aa47f8d7bfd9b97df656b384ab72261d
/usr/share/applications/nitrogen.desktop
/usr/share/doc/nitrogen
/usr/share/doc/nitrogen/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/nitrogen/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/nitrogen/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/nitrogen/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/nitrogen/README
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/nitrogen.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/actions/wallpaper-centered.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/actions/wallpaper-scaled.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/actions/wallpaper-tiled.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/actions/wallpaper-zoomed.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/nitrogen.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/devices/video-display.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/mimetypes/image-x-generic.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/nitrogen.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/nitrogen.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/nitrogen.png
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/nitrogen.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/nitrogen.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/nitrogen.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/nitrogen.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/nitrogen.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/nitrogen.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/nitrogen.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/nitrogen.appdata.xml

References

Summary

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