How To Install unclutter-xfixes on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install unclutter-xfixes in Fedora 36. unclutter-xfixes is Hides the cursor on inactivity (rewrite of unclutter)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install unclutter-xfixes on Fedora 36.

What is `unclutter-xfixes`

This is a rewrite of the popular tool unclutter, but using the x11-xfixes extension. This means that this rewrite doesn’t use fake windows or pointer grabbing and hence causes less problems with window managers and/or applications.

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

Install unclutter-xfixes 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 unclutter-xfixes using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install unclutter-xfixes

Install unclutter-xfixes 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 unclutter-xfixes using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install unclutter-xfixes

How To Uninstall unclutter-xfixes on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the unclutter-xfixes package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove unclutter-xfixes

unclutter-xfixes Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/unclutter
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4c
/usr/lib/.build-id/4c/8f9f24a38758b84dd4137eef7c5231866ad9d2
/usr/share/licenses/unclutter-xfixes
/usr/share/licenses/unclutter-xfixes/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/unclutter.1.gz

References

unclutter-xfixes website

Summary

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