Small-footprint lightweight X desktop with openbox, tint2 and basic apps, with system-level tools, compilers, and a few extras. See the github wiki for more info.

Setup information

Git repository

https://github.com/sarnold/meta-alt-desktop-extras web repo

Last commit: 3 years, 6 months ago (master branch)

Maintainer

Dependencies

The meta-alt-desktop-extras layer depends upon:

Recipe name Version Description
clearlooks-theme-enable 1.0 Enable clearlooks theme in gtkrc
connman-ui 0.0+git_b838e640 ConnMan management interface done in GTK+
console-image-base 1.0 An enhanced console image for small boards (eg, RaspberryPi, BeagleBoneBlack, etc).
console-image-dev 1.0 An enhanced console image for small boards (eg, RaspberryPi, BeagleBoneBlack, etc).
console-image-plus 1.0 A custom console image based on core image
dhcpcd 1.3.22-pl4 dhcpcd is an RFC2131-, RFC2132-, and RFC1541-compliant DHCP client daemon. It gets an IP address and other information from the DHCP server, automatically configures the network interface, and tries to renew the lease time according to RFC2131 or RFC1541.
empcd git EMPCd is the Event Music Player Client daemon
feh 2.9.2 feh is a fast, lightweight image viewer which uses imlib2.
giblib 1.2.4 giblib is a utility library that incorporates doubly linked lists, some string functions, and a wrapper for imlib2.
gkrellm 2.3.5 GKrellM is a GTK-based stacked monitor program.
gnome-icon-theme-enable 1.0 Enable gnome-icon-theme in gtkrc
irssi 0.8.13 Irssi is a modular IRC client with Perl scripting.
jbig2dec 0.11 Decoder implementation of the JBIG2 image compression format
lirc 0.8.7 LIRC is a package that allows you to decode and send infra-red signals of many commonly used remote controls.
mpc 0.17 Command-line (scriptable) Music Player Daemon (mpd) Client
mpc 0.15 Command-line (scriptable) Music Player Daemon (mpd) Client
mupdf git A lightweight PDF viewer and toolkit written in portable C.
nginx 1.4.0 HTTP and reverse proxy server for embedded environments
nginx 1.0.10 HTTP and reverse proxy server
obconf 2.0.3 openbox configuration program
openjpeg 1.5.1 Open-source JPEG 2000 codec written in C language
pyxdg 0.25 A Python module to deal with freedesktop.org specifications
rpi-gpio 0.5.3a A module to control Raspberry Pi GPIO channels
rpio 0.10.0 Advanced GPIO for the Raspberry Pi. Extends RPi.GPIO with PWM, GPIO interrups, TCP socket interrupts, command line tools and more
tcf-agent 1.1+gitX Target Communication Framework
tint2 0.11 A lightweight panel/taskbar
weston-image-plus 1.0 A basic Wayland image with some gtk apps
wifi-radar 2.0.s08 WiFi Radar is a Python/PyGTK2 utility for managing WiFi profiles.
wpa-gui 0.6.9 Qt interface for choosing which configured network to connect to. It also provides a method for browsing 802.11 SSID scan results, an event history log of messages generated by wpa_supplicant, and a method to add or edit wpa_supplicant networks.
xorg-image-base 1.0 An enhanced console image for small boards (eg, RaspberryPi, BeagleBoneBlack, etc).
xorg-image-desktop 1.0 An enhanced console image for small boards (eg, RaspberryPi, BeagleBoneBlack, etc).
xorg-image-dev 1.0 An enhanced console image for small boards (eg, RaspberryPi, BeagleBoneBlack, etc).
xorg-openbox-image 1.0 A custom openbox image based on console-image-plus.bb
xorg-sato-image 1.0 A custom image based on core-image and x11/sato.