Riotboard development board series notes (IX) -- buildreoot porting matchbox

The last blog recorded the use of buildroot transplant Xserver The process of ,X Server It provides basic graphic display capability , If you want to use the desktop system, you need another Window Manager.Matchbox yes X Window System Free and open source Window Manager, It is mainly used in embedded systems , This blog mainly records MatchBox The migration process of .

1 buildroot Download and compile

buildroot Use 2018.11.x edition , download ：

git clone https://git.busybox.net/buildroot -b 2018.11.x

Download and enter the directory , Execute first riotboard_defconfig

sudo make riotboard_defconfig

Re execution ：

sudo make menuconfig

Enter into Graphic libraries and applications (graphic/text) Select the following items in the directory ：

 session manager
 matchbox-common
 matchbox-desktop 
 matchbox-fakekey  
 matchbox-keyboard     
 matchbox-lib 
 matchbox-panel
 matchbox-startup-monitor  

Exit compilation after saving ：

sudo make

2 System burning and testing

After compilation, burn the system to TF or SD In the card , See the previous blog for the burning method , After starting up, execute the following commands in sequence ：

 export DISPLAY=:0
 matchbox-window-manager &
 matchbox-desktop &

You can see that matchbox-desktop 了 , Compared with the previous article GUI It's much better .

Then start a xterm terminal ：

xterm

The effect is as follows ：

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