How To Install wshowkeys on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wshowkeys
on Fedora 36.
What is wshowkeys
Displays key presses on screen on supported Wayland compositors (requires wlr_layer_shell_v1 support eg sway). Usage wshowkeys [-b|-f|-s #RRGGBB[AA]] [-F font] [-t timeout] [-a top|left|right|bottom] [-m margin] [-o output] -b #RRGGBB[AA] -f #RRGGBB[AA] -s #RRGGBB[AA] -F font -t timeout -a top|left|right|bottom May be specified twice. -m margin -o output output (unimplemented)
We can use yum
or dnf
to install wshowkeys
on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wshowkeys.
Install wshowkeys 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 wshowkeys
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install wshowkeys
Install wshowkeys 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 wshowkeys
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install wshowkeys
How To Uninstall wshowkeys on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the wshowkeys
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove wshowkeys
wshowkeys Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/bin/wshowkeys
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/40
/usr/lib/.build-id/40/58ae5358f26773f6967a8a9bf3f5e8b15c03c1
/usr/share/doc/wshowkeys
/usr/share/doc/wshowkeys/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/wshowkeys
/usr/share/licenses/wshowkeys/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wshowkeys
on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).