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

[Gordan Bobic]

Last time I checked, KDE memory footprint was quite similar to XFCE (and in
any case much smaller than, say, Firefox).
I don't use Gnome so cannot comment on that, but I don't imagine GDM itself
is that heavy just to display the login screen.

On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>
wrote:

> 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>
> 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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