[CentOS] the "official" lightweight desktop environment for CentOS?

[Garrick Staples]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:01:32PM -0300, Marcelo Roccasalva alleged:
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 5:24 AM, Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org> wrote:
> > I want to build a dedicated MythTV box using CentOS5. I need a
> > lightweight desktop environment, something extremely simple that does
> > not use much memory. Gnome and KDE use way too much memory and are too
> > complex for what I want to do.
> > The system will login automatically to a certain account after booting
> > up. After the automatic login, it will start immediately the MythTV
> > frontend full-screen. If the frontend dies, the desktop needs to logout
> > / log back in automatically. No other application will run on this
> > machine, only mythfrontend. There will only be one account. Think of it
> > as a single-purpose appliance, not a regular computer.
> > Whatever I use as the desktop environment, it needs to be pretty
> > standard - either included in the distribution proper, or in one of the
> > major repositories. It must be very trivial to enable, with no hacking
> > required to the OS. It must play well with mythfrontend, I don't need
> > any compatibility issues. It must be a stable, reputable software.
> >
> > Which desktop environment would you recommend based on the requirements?
> 
> Do you really need a window manager? Maybe you can run something like:
> 
> xinit glxgears -- /usr/bin/X :1

Yes, mythtv really should have a window manager.

http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Frequently_Asked_Questions#Do_I_really_need_a_window_manager_for_a_frontend_only_box.3F

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Garrick Staples, GNU/Linux HPCC SysAdmin
University of Southern California

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