How To Install pidgin-indicator on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pidgin-indicator on Fedora 36.
What is pidgin-indicator
This plugin provides a StatusNotifierItem tray icon, for use in KDE Plasma 5, Unity, Elementary and other environments. It provides all the same functionality as the original tray icon but not in exactly the same way * The smart click behavior that either shows the buddy list or unread messages is now activated by a middle-click because left click on an libappindicator always opens the menu. * As the SNI-icon is a separate process from pidgin itself, there are sometimes conflicts with Focus Stealing Prevention when you use the indicator to go to unread messages. You may need to disable FSP for Pidgin to get around this. * Due to how libappindicator work, the middle-click action must also be a menu item, so it’s the new Show/Hide item at the top of the menu. * Due to libappindicator limitations, some of the special icons cannot be shown next to menu items any more.
We can use yum or dnf to install pidgin-indicator on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pidgin-indicator.
Install pidgin-indicator 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 pidgin-indicator using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install pidgin-indicator
Install pidgin-indicator 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 pidgin-indicator using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install pidgin-indicator
How To Uninstall pidgin-indicator on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the pidgin-indicator package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove pidgin-indicator
pidgin-indicator Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d/d9a2e6e92b137c9ce5191a56fb9d68728ba934
/usr/lib64/pidgin/indicator.so
/usr/share/doc/pidgin-indicator
/usr/share/doc/pidgin-indicator/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/pidgin-indicator/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/pidgin-indicator/README.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/status/pidgin-indicator-nothing.png
/usr/share/licenses/pidgin-indicator
/usr/share/licenses/pidgin-indicator/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin-indicator.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin-indicator.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin-indicator.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin-indicator.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin-indicator.mo
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pidgin-indicator on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).
