Vivace

Vivace is a desktop environment for PhotonOS. It is a set of extra RPMs like xorg-server, dwm, firefox...

Source code

git clone https://github.com/vmware/vivace.git
cd vivace
git submodule update --init

Build

make packages

Pre-built Vivace binaries

Pre-built binaries for Vivace are available through the following YUM repository that can be configured on your Photon deployment.

Vivace YUM repository

Create the file "/etc/yum.repos.d/vivace.repo" with the following contents.

[vivace]
name=VMware Vivace 3.0(x86_64)
baseurl=https://dl.bintray.com/vmware/vivace_$releasever_$basearch
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/VMWARE-RPM-GPG-KEY
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
skip_if_unavailable=True

Install

Vivace provides RPM meta package which will bring dwm, terminal and firefox.

tdnf install vui