[oe] window managers?

[Martin Jansa]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 04:57:41PM -0500, Cliff Brake wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I did some looking into window managers in recent oe/meta-oe/angstrom,
> and this is what I found:
> 
> matchbox
> - is this still maintained?  Does not seem like a lot of new development.
> 
> xfce
> - looks promising, but xconf did not build
> 
> gnome
> - build problems
> 
> enlightenment
> - builds, but got stuck with enlightenment_start.oe, no profiles
> listed, so can't get through the initial dialogs on startup
> 
> twm
> -worked, but is very minimalist
> 
> Questions:
> 1) any opinions on WM for embedded Linux systems?  For most projects,
> we simply run a single full screen app, but a WM would be nice in some
> cases.
> 
> 2) any idea how to get profiles installed so that enlightenment can
> start?  Is there any way to bypass this for a canned embedded
> scenario?

Install e-wm-config-mobile or e-wm-config-standard, you can use packagegroup-x11-illume.

Cheers,

-- 
Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com
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