How To Install x-tile on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install x-tile in Fedora 36. x-tile is A GTK application to tile windows in different ways

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install x-tile on Fedora 36.

What is `x-tile`

X-tile is an application that allows you to select a number of windows and tile them in different ways. X-tile works on any X desktop (GNOME, KDE, XFCE, LXDE…). The main features are optional system tray docking and menu, filter to avoid listing some windows, filter to check some windows by default, command line interface.

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

Install x-tile 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 x-tile using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install x-tile

Install x-tile 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 x-tile using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install x-tile

How To Uninstall x-tile on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the x-tile package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove x-tile

x-tile Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/x-tile
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/X_Tile-3.3-py3.10.egg-info
/usr/share/applications/x-tile.desktop
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/x-tile.svg
/usr/share/licenses/x-tile
/usr/share/licenses/x-tile/license
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/x-tile.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/x-tile.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_AR/LC_MESSAGES/x-tile.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/x-tile.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/x-tile.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/x-tile.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/x-tile.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/x-tile.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/x-tile.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/x-tile.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/x-tile.appdata.xml
/usr/share/x-tile
/usr/share/x-tile/glade
/usr/share/x-tile/glade/checkbox_checked.svg
/usr/share/x-tile/glade/checkbox_unchecked.svg
/usr/share/x-tile/glade/close-checked-windows.svg
/usr/share/x-tile/glade/cycle-tiling.svg
/usr/share/x-tile/glade/help-contents.svg
/usr/share/x-tile/glade/invert-tiling.svg
/usr/share/x-tile/glade/maximize-checked-windows.svg
/usr/share/x-tile/glade/quit-app.svg
/usr/share/x-tile/glade/reload-windows-list.svg
/usr/share/x-tile/glade/tile-custom-1-exe.svg
/usr/share/x-tile/glade/tile-custom-1-set.svg
/usr/share/x-tile/glade/tile-custom-2-exe.svg
/usr/share/x-tile/glade/tile-custom-2-set.svg
/usr/share/x-tile/glade/tile-grid.svg
/usr/share/x-tile/glade/tile-horizontally.svg
/usr/share/x-tile/glade/tile-quad.svg
/usr/share/x-tile/glade/tile-triangle-down.svg
/usr/share/x-tile/glade/tile-triangle-left.svg
/usr/share/x-tile/glade/tile-triangle-right.svg
/usr/share/x-tile/glade/tile-triangle-up.svg
/usr/share/x-tile/glade/tile-vertically.svg
/usr/share/x-tile/glade/toolbar.png
/usr/share/x-tile/glade/unmaximize-checked-windows.svg
/usr/share/x-tile/glade/x-tile.glade
/usr/share/x-tile/glade/x-tile.svg
/usr/share/x-tile/modules
/usr/share/x-tile/modules/cons.py
/usr/share/x-tile/modules/core.py
/usr/share/x-tile/modules/globs.py
/usr/share/x-tile/modules/support.py
/usr/share/x-tile/modules/tilings.py

References

x-tile website

Summary

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