Desktop environmentsShamsa Al Mazrooei

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There’s no one true desktop environment for Linux.

Unlike competing operating systems like Windows, Linux users have a choice of many

different desktop environments, all with their own styles and strengths.

Desktop Environment:

which is a set of programs that control the screen and provide small utility programs to perform tasks such as manage files.

A desktop environment contains:

• icons• windows• toolbars• folders• wallpapers• desktop widgets • drag and drop

Common Desktop Environments:

• K Desktop Environment• GNOME.• LXDE Unity• XFCE

GNOMEis a desktop environment that is composed entirely of free and open-source software. GNOME is an acronym for GNU Network Object Model Environment. Its target operating system is Linux, but it is also supported on most derivatives of BSD.

LXDE Unity

The Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment (LXDE; http://lxde.org) is, as its full name suggests, intended to consume few resources and therefore work well on old or modest computers.

K Desktop Environment

is an international free software communityproducing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on modern Unix-like and Microsoft Windows systems. It is known for its Plasma Desktop

XFCE

This desktop environment, headquartered at http://www.xfce.org, was originally modeled on a commercial desktop environment known as CDE, but it is built using the GTK+ widget set. Xfce provides more configurability than GNOME or Unity, and it aims to consume fewer system resources than most other desktop environments.

Done by:Shamsa Al Mazrooei