Thanks Morgan for the reply! Inline
On Jan 13, 2013, at 7:50 AM, Morgan Gangwere wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 2:14 AM, shiny knight <theshinykni...@me.com> wrote: >> Hi group >> >> I have got a beaglebone recently, and I've also purchased an LCD monitor >> that interface with it. >> >> With the standard build of Angstrom I am able to see that it boots >> automagically into a graphical login, where you can pick between XMBC and >> Gnome. >> >> Now I have few questions: >> >> 1) Gnome resolution is basically too high for the LCD resolution (480x200), >> so it is close to useless...is there any other GUI that I can use to replace >> Gnome? I've checked Enlightenment and lxde but neither of them is available >> in the opkg list, so I am not really sure what could I put on the system, to >> be able to use the lcd monitor. I don't need necessarily a full desktop; I >> need something nice to write text, code (in C++ and C, so if there is >> support for an IDE I would be happier); occasionally I may use other >> applications, but mainly it is for coding and running compiled code on it. > > * I've seen people run Xfce on it nicely. > * you'll need to build E17 for yourself no matter what you do still > (it *is* still in development) > * There is a few decent "small-screen" ui's that come to mind... > Matchbox and Opie. GTK and QT respectively. > * Matchbox is part of GPE, the Gnome Palmtop Environment (GPE). It has > a few nice little features. Nothing keeps you from running vim, or > even emacs > Is there any guide or step-by-step to build E17 and use Xfce? I am quite new at the whole linux world :) Found some matchbox packages with opkg; not sure thou which one is the one that I need (there is a desktop, a keyboard, a panel, a session and a terminal variant). If it allows me to run something close to an IDE (or Nano/emacs) I will be more than happy. No Opie thou, doing a opkg list returns nothing with opie in it...do I have to get it from somewhere else? Will I see them in the dropdown when gconf launch? I don't really like Android, so I am looking for some environment as close as possible to Linux, so I can just focus on coding, instead than going trough hoops to make everything work :) If I could launch something like Eclipse from terminal, to code, compile and test applications,that would be awesome :) >> 2) How do I modify the startup GUI that appears automatically after the >> login? After doing an upgrade it won't launch anymore; plus I am interested >> in learning where the configuration for gnome is stored. > > 2.1) Sounds like an init script issue. GPE has a dedicated login manager. > 2.2) In a bunch of places. GNOME stores is configuration sometimes in > D-Bus, sometimes it stores it in ~/.config/gconf, other times its in > ~/.gconf, and other times its stored in /etc/gconf. There are probably > a dozen other places I'm missing, too. I've tracked down the gconf settings, now I need to verify if the script is still there after the upgrade; I just wish that the config for X11 and the other graphic settings was just in one place; so you can modify it in one place and don't worry about the rest :) > > > -- > my .sigfile is on vacation. > I filter everything with an application/ms-* mimetype. > I write code: https://github.com/indrora/ https://bitbucket.org/indrora/ > > _______________________________________________ > Angstrom-distro-users mailing list > Angstrom-distro-users@linuxtogo.org > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-users mailing list Angstrom-distro-users@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users
