Providing graphical lima example

[afbjorklund]

I was doing an example file for graphical login, that is when you run qemu with a display...

But it seems a bit much to run ubuntu-desktop (gnome), or even alpine (historically: xfce)

What would be relevant to show here ? The target user pretty much only wants "xterm".

I was thinking of something like openbox or icewm, similar to the Tiny Core Linux desktop.

http://tinycorelinux.net/screenshots.html

(why TCL? docker-machine was using it)

The default setup just shows a black window (640x480), waiting for the user to right-click on it:

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Then there was also the question of password, or "how to log in"...

Contemplated adding xdm to it, but it doesn't do auto-login anyway.
Using gdm is very bloated, and lightdm didn't work (for some reason)

The current workaround was passwd from shell, and startx from console.

Here was the base config:

video:
  display: "default"

provision:
- mode: system
  script: |
    #!/bin/bash
    set -eux -o pipefail
    command -v Xorg >/dev/null 2>&1 && exit 0
    apt-get install -y xorg xterm openbox hsetroot
    update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-session-manager x-session-manager /usr/bin/openbox-session 1
    # Enable software cursor for xserver-xorg, since hardware cursor seems to be invisible on the qemu display
    printf 'Section "Device"\nIdentifier "Card0"\nOption "SWcursor"\nEndSection' > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/swcursor.conf

Idea was just to have an example, a simple "desktop" with a session (and xterm!)

[afbjorklund]

Here is one example of a customized instance (of this template), where I added a background image (jammy) and a bottom panel:

• Session manager: openbox-session

  • Window manager: openbox
  • Background: Ubuntu (ubuntu-wallpapers-jammy)
  • Icons: Yaru (yaru-theme-icon)

• Desktop panel: fbpanel

  • File manager: xfe
  • Terminal: urxvt
  • Web browser: dillo

Configured as per documentation:

http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Autostart

https://aanatoly.github.io/fbpanel/docs.html

Alternatively: https://ice-wm.org/manual/

[afbjorklund]

The xfce variant would look something like this:

It can be installed as the "xubuntu-desktop" task.

https://xubuntu.org/about/