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Desktop Environments I doubt the pi would run a full gui of Gnome leave alone the full weight of KDE but I have had windowmaker and fluxbox running rather well on a B+ (before a power outage corrupted the sd card). I should explore using different guis (wayland?) and note how to install and set as default, vnc, and as a remote x session on nix and doze. I may also choose some lightweight desktop apps such as mail, browser, office, media and imaging.
Fluxbox on VNC sudo apt-get install fluxbox tightvncserver;Start the server for the first time to create the config folder and files. Set a password when prompted, then stop it again. tightvncserver -geometry 800x600 :1 tightvncserver -kill :1Now edit the vnc config file to add fluxbox. vi ~/.vnc/xstartupcomment with a hash the following line to look like this:- #/etc/X11/Xsessionand add the following at the bottom fluxbox ¬ forgetting the ampersand (&). save and close. (untested) to select fluxbox as the default gui use the following:- sudo update-alternatives --config x-session-managerselect openbox. (/untested)
Adding items to the fluxbox menu
Most items can be found on the menu and this is a good place to add anything else you would like to keep close at hand. The menu you see is dynamically created by the os at cd ~/.fluxbox;ls > confmenu vi menuadd the following above the existing "include" entry. [include](/home/pi/.fluxbox/confmenu)next lets add some stuff to this menu. vi /home/pi/.fluxbox/confmenuThe simple menu entry syntax of :- [ exec ] ( menu entry ) { command } < icon >within [ submenu ]( groupname ){ } [ end ]menu branches.
light weight gui apps
Beaver Text Editor wget http://www.bristolwatch.com/rpi/dl/beaver_0.4.1-1_armhf.deb sudo dpkg -i beaver_0.4.1-1_armhf.deb
Adding Fonts
Chrome browser
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