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Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Talk => Extension requests => Topic started by: roborob on September 21, 2015, 03:56:03 AM

Title: cinnamon desktop?
Post by: roborob on September 21, 2015, 03:56:03 AM

hi,

my son is showing an interest in TC, but prefers the cinnamon desktop.  what would it take to be able to bring that wm to TC?  is that something someone here is willing to do?  or are there instructions somewhere?

thanks.

Title: Re: cinnamon desktop?
Post by: curaga on September 21, 2015, 04:39:15 AM

Being a Gnome fork, it's likely quite an ordeal to get working, and consists of dozens of packages.

Title: Re: cinnamon desktop?
Post by: Misalf on September 21, 2015, 04:46:39 AM

Juanito has built Gnome 3 for Corepure64 (http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,16875.0.html) which doesn't seem to have been easy.
I think it's available in the 64bit repo, so might be an option for your son.

Title: Re: cinnamon desktop?
Post by: Juanito on September 21, 2015, 05:18:58 AM

the gnome-3.16.x desktop is available in the corepure64 repo.

gnome-session is used to start the desktop, but be aware that this is likely to pull in +/-250 additional extensions, depending on how many you have to start with.

Maybe you could start with the above and, if that's not to your son's liking, attempt to build cinnamon starting from the existing extensions in the corepure64 repo?

Title: Re: cinnamon desktop?
Post by: jls on September 21, 2015, 06:30:50 AM

Hi
Maybe possible in dCore