I suspect the login screen is very light. There is that little icon that lets you select which GDM gets loaded, so the 'load' comes in loading a given GDM. I had problems with F24-X86_64 loading Cinnamon even when you selected Xfce. As it is I have both installed, but the login defaults now to loading Xfce. Supposedly the bug has been fixed. Quite some years back on Fedora-arm, probably F22, there was a GDM discussion and Xfce and LDXE were the 'winners' in memory and cpu. I tried LDXE, but liked the feel of Xfce and switched to it. With Fedora images, it is really easy to try a GDM, just build a mSD card for each GDM and boot and see how it goes. Still use k3b... On 03/06/2017 10:16 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote: > 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 > <mailto: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 <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 <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 <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/20170306/420d5d87/attachment-0006.html>