Re: [oe] packagegroup-gnome-desktop is not a desktop

[<mike.looijmans@topic.nl>]

On 28-08-2025 15:12, Markus Volk wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28 2025 at 14:39:44 +02:00:00, mike.looijmans@topic.nl wrote:
>> I now just end up with an image that has tons of "gnome" things installed, 
>> but nothing really gets started and there's no clue as to what should be 
>> running...
>
> gdm should be started automatically using systemd service:
> flk@intel-corei7-64:~$ sudo systemctl status gdm
> Password:
> * gdm.service - GNOME Display Manager
>      Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/gdm.service; enabled; preset: 
> enabled)
>      Active: active (running) since Thu 2025-08-28 15:01:08 CEST; 51s ago
>  Invocation: fb3be9d01865490aa251ee2393f6d5b4
>    Main PID: 1111 (gdm)
>       Tasks: 4 (limit: 154363)
>      Memory: 5.5M (peak: 9.8M)
>         CPU: 40ms
>      CGroup: /system.slice/gdm.service
>              `-1111 /usr/sbin/gdm
>
>
> Which OpenEmbedded branch are you on? I remember sending corrections for 
> starting gdm some time ago:
> https://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/commit/?h=master-next&id=d4ac4dcb70faeed3e3a933c378bfbcbe25a1f260 
> <https://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/commit/?h=master-next&id=d4ac4dcb70faeed3e3a933c378bfbcbe25a1f260>

I'm on scarthgap (because Xilinx/AMD is there as well).

This patch at least puts a login screen on the display. I can move the mouse 
pointer on it, but I doesn't respond to any click or keyboard button.

>
> I also build for gnome but that is far from being a tiny image:
> https://codeberg.org/flk/meta-image/src/commit/8ab5f7a156e44e30dd637361e0b9c1474537af4a/recipes-core/images/image.inc
> https://codeberg.org/flk/meta-gnome-image/src/branch/master/recipes-core/images/gnome-image.bb
>
That'll be useful. In this case I'm not particularly looking at "small". 
Experimenting with what we could demo on an MPSoC board outputting to 4 HDMI 
ports (just bit-banging FPGA pins really really fast). XFCE looks nice, but a 
gnome desktop will appeal to a bigger audience... I'd also want to get wayland 
running (weston works but a desktop that only has a terminal window won't 
really appeal to people), which your image appears to be doing as well. I 
particularly like wayland's VSync handling.

M.