Timeline for Custom GUI without desktop environment
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| Jul 24, 2015 at 11:28 | comment | added | N van Oosten | Let us continue this discussion in chat. | |
| Jul 24, 2015 at 11:16 | comment | added | N van Oosten | Is it possible to then have a completely empty desktop environment with only my custom taskbar? Qt can use borderless windows, so a simple (tiling) window manager to render the applications always full screen and only switch with the keyboard is enough, also with shortcuts to launch applications and switch to them. Then the X server is just configured to launch the default application. Also, since KDE uses Qt, can I create my custom taskbar/desktop with Qt, then have KDE use it, or is that going too far? | |
| Jul 24, 2015 at 11:04 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | You need an X server to have a GUI. Beyond that, you don't need a window manager if you're running a single application. With multiple applications, technically, you don't need a window manager, but in practice, you do want one, otherwise switching between windows is painful. Additional features such as a task bar are beyond the scope of window managers and into desktop environments though some WM do offer a task bar. | |
| Jul 24, 2015 at 10:56 | comment | added | N van Oosten | I wonder, since I just want a few simple applications, can I just use Qt, for example, to create an application that simulates the main GUI I want (launched through the Linux terminal), such as the taskbar, then launching other Qt-based applications through that? It doesn't need to be complex or anything. This already makes it much like a kiosk system. It appears that as long as the Qt libraries are installed, I can run a (full-screen) Qt-based application without any window manager or desktop environment. | |
| Jul 24, 2015 at 7:28 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | So you want a WM with a minimalist look? Have you browsed en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_X_window_managers and wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Window_manager and duckduckgo.com/?q=minimalist+window+manager ? | |
| Jul 24, 2015 at 7:03 | comment | added | N van Oosten | No, I don't really want to write my own X server or even a window manager. I'm not that experienced. I really just want to customize the actual appearance of the GUI. Basically, the system needs to represent an embedded or kiosk system, just with more than one application + terminal | |
| Jul 23, 2015 at 22:44 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | So are you looking to write your own window manager, or write your own X server? Are you sure you understand the architecture? You do not need a window manager to have a GUI (only to have a comfortable GUI). | |
| Jul 23, 2015 at 10:45 | answer | added | Basile Starynkevitch | timeline score: 2 | |
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| Jul 23, 2015 at 10:43 | history | asked | N van Oosten | CC BY-SA 3.0 |