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?
Florin Andrei a écrit :
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.
X! F! C! E!
I've been using XFCE since 4.0 (currently it's 4.4.2), and since last December or so, I'm running it exclusively on all my desktops, at home and at work.
http://www.kikinovak.net/images/centos5-xfce.png
After logging in, XFCE takes 49 MB of RAM (YMMV), so it's rather lightweight.
You have to enable the [extra] repos to get XFCE.
I have some documentation on http://www.microlinux.fr about tweaking and fine-tuning XFCE under CentOS, but it's in french.
Cheers,
Niki
Niki Kovacs wrote:
Florin Andrei a écrit :
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.
X! F! C! E!
I've been using XFCE since 4.0 (currently it's 4.4.2), and since last December or so, I'm running it exclusively on all my desktops, at home and at work.
http://www.kikinovak.net/images/centos5-xfce.png
After logging in, XFCE takes 49 MB of RAM (YMMV), so it's rather lightweight.
You have to enable the [extra] repos to get XFCE.
I have some documentation on http://www.microlinux.fr about tweaking and fine-tuning XFCE under CentOS, but it's in french.
XFCE is in the CentOS Extras repo and it is enabled by default on CentOS-4 and CentOS-5 ... so:
yum grouplist | grep -i XFCE
For CentOS-5 that shows that this is the install command:
yum groupinstall XFCE-4.4
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 01:24:09AM -0700, Florin Andrei alleged:
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?
It's not "official" (not sure what that means), but I use fluxbox on my mythbox.
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 5:24 AM, Florin Andrei florin@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
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@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...
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