How To Install xmonad on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xmonad on CentOS 7.
What is xmonad
xmonad is a tiling window manager for X. Windows are arranged automatically to tile the screen without gaps or overlap, maximising screen use. All features of the window manager are accessible from the keyboard is written and extensible in Haskell. Custom layout algorithms, and other extensions, may be written by the user in config files. Layouts are applied dynamically, and different layouts may be used on each workspace. Xinerama is fully supported, allowing windows to be tiled on several screens. This is a meta-package that installs xmonad-basic and ghc-xmonad-contrib-devel, allowing xmonad to be customized with “~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs”. To use xmonad with GNOME/MATE, please install xmonad-mate.
We can use yum or dnf to install xmonad on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xmonad.
Install xmonad on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install xmonad using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install xmonad
Install xmonad on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install xmonad using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install xmonad
How To Uninstall xmonad on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the xmonad package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove xmonad
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xmonad on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
