On Tue Mar03'26 11:11:32AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> From: Patrick O'Callaghan <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:11:32 +0000
> To: [email protected]
> Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: what is the difference between tabbed and tabbed-fedora?
>
> On Mon, 2026-03-02 at 23:05 -0600, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have noticed that there is a /usr/bin/tabbed and a /usr/bin/tabbed-
> > fedora in my F43 system. What is the difference between the two of
> > them?
>
> No idea. I don't have either of those, not do I know what they're for,
> so presumably you installed one or both of them from somewhere. Try
> 'rpm -qf /usr/bin/tabbed*' to get package info.
Thanks, both are installed from the tabbed rpm in Fedora's official repos.
There is not much info doing 'rpm -qf /usr/bin/tabbed*` of `dnf info tabbed\*`
However, I think I may have got what I was looking for:
$ sudo dnf provides /usr/bin/tabbed\*
tabbed-0.7-7.fc43.x86_64 : Simple Xembed container manager
Repo : fedora
Matched From :
Filename : /usr/bin/tabbed
Filename : /usr/bin/tabbed-fedora
tabbed-user-0.7-7.fc43.x86_64 : Tabbed sources and tools for user configuration
Repo : fedora
Matched From :
Filename : /usr/bin/tabbed
Filename : /usr/bin/tabbed-user
Installing tabbed-user and running `man tabbed-user` (or tabbed, since it is
linked then through /etc/alternatives/tabbed) seems to indicate that
`tabbed-fedora` is a system build while `tabbed` is the custom-build.
TABBED-USER(1) General Commands Manual TABBED-USER(1)
NAME
tabbed-user - tabbed reconfiguration helper and launcher script
SYNOPSIS
tabbed-user
DESCRIPTION
tabbed-user is a helper script for running and reconfiguring
tabbed if neccessarry.
Running tabbed-user starts the Fedora build by default. If you
wish to customize your configuration, put your tabbed configu‐
ration header file to $HOME/.tabbed/config.h and adjust it ac‐
cording to your needs. The official Fedora configuration file
might be a useful template. See the FILES section of this man‐
ual.
Every time the user configuration file has changed or new
patches have been added, tabbed-user will rebuild the user
tabbed binary prior to its execution.
Fedora utilizes alternatives to choose whether the system
build, also installed as tabbed-fedora, or the custom build is
run. If available, custom builds are preferred.
FILES
$HOME/.tabbed
- User tabbed directory
$HOME/.tabbed/config.h
- User tabbed configuration
$HOME/.tabbed/patches
- Optional patches to apply
/usr/src/tabbed-user-0.7-7.fc43
- tabbed sources
/usr/src/tabbed-0.7-7.fc43/config.def.h
- Fedora build configuration
SEE ALSO
tabbed(1), update-alternatives(8)
BUGS
Report bugs to Red Hat Bugzilla, http://bugzilla.redhat.com/
AUTHOR
Written by Petr Šabata <[email protected]>, 2014.
tabbed-user-0.7-7.fc43 TABBED-USER(1)
Some parts are a little unclear to me, so I will play with it a bit and try and
reverse-engineer the documentation (mostly to understand how to change the
configuration). I will report back my findings, unless someone has more
knowledge on this.
Many thanks again, and best wishes,
Ranjan
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