[CentOS] the "official" lightweight desktop environment for CentOS?

[Marcelo Roccasalva]

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 5:24 AM, Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org> wrote:
> I want to build a dedicated MythTV box using CentOS5. I need a
> lightweight desktop environment, something extremely simple that does
> not use much memory. Gnome and KDE use way too much memory and are too
> complex for what I want to do.
> The system will login automatically to a certain account after booting
> up. After the automatic login, it will start immediately the MythTV
> frontend full-screen. If the frontend dies, the desktop needs to logout
> / log back in automatically. No other application will run on this
> machine, only mythfrontend. There will only be one account. Think of it
> as a single-purpose appliance, not a regular computer.
> Whatever I use as the desktop environment, it needs to be pretty
> standard - either included in the distribution proper, or in one of the
> major repositories. It must be very trivial to enable, with no hacking
> required to the OS. It must play well with mythfrontend, I don't need
> any compatibility issues. It must be a stable, reputable software.
>
> Which desktop environment would you recommend based on the requirements?

Do you really need a window manager? Maybe you can run something like:

xinit glxgears -- /usr/bin/X :1

-- 
Marcelo

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