Primarily, what a DE means to you is how you interact with the desktop. Running multiple Desktop Environments without uninstalling others is one mere file edit away. Good DEs are modular and will allow the users to mix and match and switch any of their modules with another of their choice. It will contain a display manager, window manager, session manager, file manager, and various other default applications that a user may find useful ( web browser, audio player, etc). Text editor: Vim (or Neovim), Emacs, Nano, or Sublime Text.Ī desktop environment is a complete suite of software designed to maintain a certain experience in a Linux environment.Video conversion: FFmpeg (including WebM or GIF creation).Streaming: FFmpeg (which includes FFserver if you want to host the stream).Screen recorder: see below (some casuals also use Byzanz).Image viewer/desktop wallpaper display: feh, sxiv.Screen capture (screenshot): scrot, maim, or import (part of imagemagick).Music player: mpd + ncmpcpp or ncmpc, or cmus.font: DejaVu, Inconsolata, terminus, or Tewi.OS information: Neofetch, Screenfetch or Archey.File Manager: ranger, mc, nnn, or none.Window Manager: i3, Sway, Awesome, or dwm.Distro: Arch (but sometimes Gentoo/Funtoo, Void Linux, Debian GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, or even OpenBSD).

All of these can be installed from a repository via your package manager, be it your distro's main one or a user one (the AUR in Arch), or built from source. Let's be honest: this is why you're really here.Ī common ricing configuration which can be seen among /g/ users in desktop threads usually features some of the software below. 4.1 List of window managers and similar tools.

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