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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Arm-dev mailing list >> Arm-dev at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Arm-dev mailing listArm-dev at centos.orghttps://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/a726f5e9/attachment-0006.html>