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Salut René, |
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You may want to tke a look at Tiny X which is a small stripped down |
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version of X. I throw this just like that since I'm not sure what your |
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goal is... is it to get the smallest size possible regardless of |
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compatibility, or if keeping things running as normal important. From |
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my own experiences with uClibc, you often have to do compromises. If |
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everything would compile ok with uClibc, I'm sure pretty much everything |
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would be built using it. It does compile smaller binaries and there is |
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a cost to that. |
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Goog luck and keep us informed of your progresses. I always like things |
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that squeezes the most out of ressources. |
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Le jeudi 15 septembre 2005 à 21:50 -0400, René Rhéaume a écrit : |
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> I am trying to build a mini desktop on a uclibc-based system. At |
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> first, I tried to get XFCE running but got into serious GTK+ issues, I |
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> broke ncurses during an update and had to start over. With this in |
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> mind, I separated the plan into three phases, get the smallest desktop |
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> with a basic set of applications, add applications and build other |
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> desktop environments (neither GNOME nor KDE, as they are very big). |
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> |
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> Basic applications: |
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> - window manager: IceWM, patched to removed dependency on iconv |
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> (bug #101032) |
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> - X11 terminal: patched rxvt and rxvt-uncode (bug #104043) |
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> - text editor: nedit |
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> - PDF reader: patched xpdf (dependency reduction, TrueType |
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> auto-hinting, experimental shared library reducing dramatically the |
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> binary size (tbz2 went from 2594Kb to 650Kb)) |
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> - IRC client: nebula and BitchX (~x86, no RPATHS please) |
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> - file manager: patched xplore (bug #106132) |
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> - web browser |
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> - music player |
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> |
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> The web browser issue is pretty interesting. Dillo heavily depends on |
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> the system iconv, something a Gentoo stable uclibc 0.9.27 does not |
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> provide. On the other hand, Gecko has its own iconv code but almost |
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> all Mozilla-based applications depend on GTK+. I would like to have |
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> minimo. |
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> As for the music player, I cannot use neither beep-media-player nor |
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> xmms, as they depend on GTK+. GTK+ 1.2 "hello world" programs I found |
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> in the GTK+ tutorial simply segfault. Cursed GNU's Not Unix Image |
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> Manipulation Program Tool Kit Plus. |
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> Do you have alternative program suggestions? How can I fix GTK? |
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Stéphane Lacasse <stephane@×××××××××××.com> |
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