Niki Kovacs wrote: > Florin Andrei a écrit : >> 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. > > X! F! C! E! > > I've been using XFCE since 4.0 (currently it's 4.4.2), and since last > December or so, I'm running it exclusively on all my desktops, at home > and at work. > > http://www.kikinovak.net/images/centos5-xfce.png > > After logging in, XFCE takes 49 MB of RAM (YMMV), so it's rather > lightweight. > > You have to enable the [extra] repos to get XFCE. > > I have some documentation on http://www.microlinux.fr about tweaking and > fine-tuning XFCE under CentOS, but it's in french. XFCE is in the CentOS Extras repo and it is enabled by default on CentOS-4 and CentOS-5 ... so: yum grouplist | grep -i XFCE For CentOS-5 that shows that this is the install command: yum groupinstall XFCE-4.4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 252 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080329/5c793f8f/attachment-0005.sig>
