{"id":11517,"date":"2014-11-26T06:57:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T06:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11517"},"modified":"2014-11-26T06:59:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T06:59:10","slug":"try-out-this-alternate-gui-environment-on-the-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11517","title":{"rendered":"Try out this alternate GUI environment on the Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/ozzmaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/matchbox-desktop.png?resize=480%2C320\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mark Williams has written a tutorial in which he downloads and compiles an alternate X-windows desktop environment called &#8216;matchbox-desktop&#8217;. It is a very minimal environment but works well with small touchscreens such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/thepihut.com\/products\/adafruit-pitft-2-8-touchscreen-for-the-raspberry-pi\" target=\"_blank\">PiTFT<\/a> or the <a href=\"http:\/\/ozzmaker.com\/2014\/10\/12\/piscreen-now-available-ozzmaker-com\/\" target=\"_blank\">PiScreen<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/ozzmaker.com\/2014\/11\/26\/matchbox-desktop-raspberry-pi\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the tutorial here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mark is currently running a Kickstarter campaign for <a href=\"http:\/\/ozzmaker.com\/2014\/11\/19\/new-kickstarter-launched-berryimu\/\" target=\"_blank\">BerryIMU<\/a> which is a tiny combined accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer. I want to put one on the Picorder, so I&#8217;m very keen that it succeeds. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/2135028730\/berryimu-orientation-sensor-for-the-raspberry-pi\" target=\"_blank\">Take a look at the campaign here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Williams has written a tutorial in which he downloads and compiles an alternate X-windows desktop environment called &#8216;matchbox-desktop&#8217;. It is a very minimal environment but works well with small touchscreens such as the PiTFT or the PiScreen. Read the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11517\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[54,49,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-software","category-tutorials"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Try out this alternate GUI environment on the Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11517\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Try out this alternate GUI environment on the Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mark Williams has written a tutorial in which he downloads and compiles an alternate X-windows desktop environment called &#8216;matchbox-desktop&#8217;. 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