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

[Robert Moskowitz]

It is all about resources consumed by the GDM.  Gnome is a real hog.  
Also 2D vs 3D.  I would think that for a server, 2D is enough.

Battery life may not be an issue for C7 users like it is for my F24 
notebook; I gained considerable battery life switching to XFce from Gnome.

IMNSHO, it is a priorities thing.  If all rpms compile equally as well, 
the ones that use the least memory and cpu over others.

My 1cent worth.

On 03/06/2017 09:24 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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=tree&method=appliance&order=-id
>     <https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/tasks?state=all&view=tree&method=appliance&order=-id>
>
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