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

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 03/06/2017 08:41 AM, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> On 04/03/17 11:20, Fabian Arrotin 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" :-)
>>
>>
> Just had 5 minutes to connect a rpi2 to my tft screen and tested the
> following :
>
> yum group install 'Server with GUI' --skip-broken
> yum install xorg-x11-drv-fbdev.armv7hl xorg-x11-drv-evdev.armv7hl xterm
>
> After that , as I was able to get a X environment working with
> xinit /bin/xterm
>
> So I guess it's now a matter of finding a correct GDM/login manager and
> then something light that can be used ...

I vote for Xfce.  Though LXDE seems to have a following.  You can try 
them all from the latest rawhide builds over at:

https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/tasks?state=all&view=tree&method=appliance&order=-id