How To Install wayland-logout on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wayland-logout on Fedora 36.
What is wayland-logout
Wayland Logout is an utility designed to kill any wayland compositor that uses libwayland-server. It looks up the PID for the socket file by checking the socket path environment variables and sends a SIGTERM signal. This is useful as a way to logout of a wayland compositor, as the name implies.
We can use yum or dnf to install wayland-logout on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wayland-logout.
Install wayland-logout 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 wayland-logout using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install wayland-logout
Install wayland-logout 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 wayland-logout using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install wayland-logout
How To Uninstall wayland-logout on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the wayland-logout package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove wayland-logout
wayland-logout Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/bin/wayland-logout
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/70
/usr/lib/.build-id/70/475b389798b8e463236d838ef4e5a993191349
/usr/share/doc/wayland-logout
/usr/share/doc/wayland-logout/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/wayland-logout
/usr/share/licenses/wayland-logout/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/wayland-logout.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wayland-logout on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).
