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A desktop environment is a collection of software designed to give functionality and a certain look and feel to an operating system.. This article applies to operating systems which are capable of running the X Window System, mostly Unix and Unix-like operating systems such as Linux, Minix, illumos, Solaris, AIX, FreeBSD and Mac OS X. [1]
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 ...
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This is coupled with GNOME's ATK to allow for accessibility features to be implemented in X programs using the GNOME/GTK APIs. [10] KDE provides a different set of accessibility software, including a text-to-speech converter and a screen magnifier. [11] The other major desktops (LXDE, Xfce and Enlightenment) attempt to be compatible with ATK.
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 .
ROSA Desktop Fresh is supposed to be the line that ships with the latest and greatest (read: bleeding edge software versions), but ROSA Desktop Fresh R2 GNOME did not live up to that billing. Instead of GNOME 3.10, the latest stable version of the GNOME 3 desktop, you get GNOME 3.8.4.
Mageia can use all major desktop environments. As was the case with Mandrake and Mandriva Linux, KDE is the main and the most used environment. End-users can choose from KDE and GNOME 64-bit live DVD editions, 32-bit and 64-bit Xfce live DVD editions, and any environment in the full DVD installation edition. It uses Mageia Control Center.
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 ...