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> > > > _______________________________________________ > Arm-dev mailing list > Arm-dev at centos.org <mailto:Arm-dev at centos.org> > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev > <https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Arm-dev mailing list > Arm-dev at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/arm-dev/attachments/20170306/7c0b23f9/attachment-0006.html>