[Arm-dev] Any type of light Desktop Environment on Arm Centos7+RPi3

[Gordan Bobic]

Given that RedSleeve (EL7 armv5tel) has a fully working desktop
environment, I suspect a cross-check against the packages and patches there
would be a good start:
https://github.com/redsleeve-linux/el7

On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 10:20 AM, Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org> wrote:

> On 03/03/17 16:49, Hamid Safe wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > I was wondering if there is a method to provide a "basic" graphical env
> > on Centos7 arm. This is in line with the recent upstream Fedora
> > publishing all types with their ver:25. also the fact that Raspbian now
> > released a stable graphical env that works out of the box with all the
> > goodies.
> > My tries no matter what type of graphical env chosen have failed with
> > dependencies not met. I have already set up the epel for arm. I know
> > that you have gone a long way preparing the Centos7 minimal for the arm
> > and it is already awesome, however having a graphical skin particularly
> > in arm boards sometimes is a must-have requirement.
> > Thanks in advance
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> I don't think someone/anyone really spent time investigating the whole
> chain for a desktop environment on CentOS 7 armhfp. I've myself never
> tried even to just see if that would work. The initial goal was to have
> "minimal" working, as most users are probably targeting such system. If
> now some people would like to spend time investigating what would be
> needed, what's still to be built, etc, that can "become a thing" :-)
>
>
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