On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 01:24:09AM -0700, Florin Andrei alleged: > 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? It's not "official" (not sure what that means), but I use fluxbox on my mythbox. -- Garrick Staples, GNU/Linux HPCC SysAdmin University of Southern California Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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