How To Install xpenguins on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xpenguins on Fedora 36.
What is xpenguins
XPenguins animates a friendly family of penguins in your root window. They drop in from the top of the screen, walk along the tops of your windows, up the side of your windows, levitate, skateboard, and do other similarly exciting things. XPenguins is now themeable so if you are bored of penguins, try something else. The themes that come with this package are “Penguins”, “Classic Penguins”, “Big Penguins”, “Turtles” and “Bill”. XPenguins works by drawing on the X root window. This might not have the desired effect in modern desktop environments like Gnome where the root window is not visible.
We can use yum or dnf to install xpenguins on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xpenguins.
Install xpenguins on Fedora 36 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install xpenguins using dnf by running the following command:
Install xpenguins on Fedora 36 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install xpenguins using yum by running the following command:
How To Uninstall xpenguins on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the xpenguins package we can use the following command:
xpenguins Package Contents on Fedora 36
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xpenguins on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).