Unity Desktop Environment? - Raspberry Pi Forums

crazyskeggy: Posts: 36; Joined: Mon Dec 17, 2012 4:02 pm

Would Canonical's Unity Desktop Environment (the default in Ubuntu) be feasible to work on Raspbian? Or are the Pi's specs to small for it to work at all?

Running a Model B (256MB RAM) with Raspbian (in NOOBS 1.3) and a Model B (512MB RAM) with OpenELEC + CEC (No NOOBS, as it breaks CEC)

gkreidl: Posts: 6326; Joined: Thu Jan 26, 2012 1:07 pm; Location: Germany

Re: Unity Desktop Environment?

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Sun Aug 04, 2013 6:42 pm

No, it would be terribly slow, even without 3D effects.

Minimal Kiosk Browser (kweb)
Slim, fast webkit browser with support for audio+video+playlists+youtube+pdf+download
Optional fullscreen kiosk mode and command interface for embedded applications
Includes omxplayerGUI, an X front end for omxplayer