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2024-10-20 MIT: Matchbox: Stacking: C: 2007-04-13 1.2.3 [23] 2023-03-15 GPL-2.0-or-later: Metacity (GNOME 2) Compositing: C, C++ (GTK+) 2002-10 3.54.0 [24] 2024-10-05 GPL-2.0-or-later: Moksha (E17) Compositing: C: 2015-08-11 0.4.1 [25] 2023-07-23 Motif Window Manager (mwm) Stacking: C: 1989 2.3.8 [26] 2017-12-05 LGPL-2.1-or-later: Mutter (GNOME ...
GNOME is one of the most popular environments. Major design changes with the 3.0 release sparked the creation of Cinnamon (a fork of GNOME 3), Unity (an alternative Gnome Desktop Session to GNOME Shell) and MATE (a fork of GNOME 2). KDE Plasma 5 (KDE5, KDE Plasma Workspaces, formerly K Desktop Environment or simply KDE) 1998-07-12
Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment which omits many of the visually appealing features (such as animations) present in other desktop environments such as KDE Plasma and GNOME. These omissions allow Xfce to run much more smoothly on low-end personal computers .
Xfce's Xfwm (since 4.2 of 2004 [citation needed] or 2005 Xfce 4.2.0 released!), Unity's Compiz (since 2005—was forked as Beryl in 2006 but the projects re-merged in 2007), and; KDE's KWin (since 4.0 of 2008). Compositing support can be added to non-compositing window managers, through the use of compositors such as compton.
Foresight focuses on delivering the latest in desktop technologies. It usually has current packages for the GNOME desktop environment, sometimes even within a day of their release. Projects such as GNOME Do, Banshee and PackageKit are delivered in the default Foresight installation. Beyond the existing GNOME Edition, Xfce and KDE Edition are ...
In 2010, tests suggested that LXDE 0.5 had the lowest memory-usage of the four most-popular desktop environments of the time (the others being GNOME 2.29, KDE Plasma Desktop 4.4, and Xfce 4.6), [7] and that it consumed less energy, [8] which suggested mobile computers with Linux distributions running LXDE 0.5 drained their batteries at a slower ...
ROSA Desktop Fresh 12.4, the latest desktop release as of 28 March 2023, is available with four different desktop environments: KDE Plasma 5, GNOME, LXQt and Xfce. [2] It also contains open source software developed in-house by ROSA, such as ROSA Image Writer or ROSA Media Player. [ 3 ]
This is a list of notable terminal emulators. Most used terminal emulators on Linux and Unix-like systems are GNOME Terminal on GNOME and GTK-based environments, Konsole on KDE, and xfce4-terminal on Xfce as well as xterm.