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

Gordan Bobic gordan at redsleeve.org
Mon Mar 6 14:24:59 UTC 2017


KDE works fine for me on RedSleeve, so it definitely should be possible to
get it working on CentOS as well.

On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>
wrote:

>
>
> 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=tre
> e&method=appliance&order=-id
>
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