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