There is a light-weight desktop environment, Maynard, for Raspberry Pi. Here are the steps to install and start using it. wget http://raspberrypi.collabora.co.uk/setup-maynard.sh chmod 755 setup-maynard.sh ./setup-maynard.sh // reboot // login maynard // enjoy Reference: http://raspberrypi.collabora.co.uk/maynard.html