It also adds the deeper and seemless integration with applications, panels, system menus, status applets, drag-and-drop functionality,… The most popular DEs: KDE Plasma, GNOME, Pantheon, Cinnamon,… Sounds familiar, right? For Nerd: not user-friendly out of the box, need to edit configuration files….Customizes most aspects of a Linux experience.Tends to be flexible and highly customizable.Requires configuration to get what you want.A WM controls the placement and appearance of screen elements.X also creates a framework for moving windows and performing tasks using a mouse and keyboard. Without the X server, neither a WM nor a DE could create images on a Linux display. X Window: All GUIs require an X Window System layer, which draws graphic elements on the display.There are basically 3 layers that can be included in the Linux desktop: We’ll begin by showing how the Linux graphical desktop is layered. Overview Window Managerįirst of all, you have to know the basic concepts. Therefore I decide to write this getting-started guide to give people a shortest path to Fancy world.

But there are many steps and things to learn and follow, I know because I’ve gone throught it.

My colleagues ask me how to make their desktop look like mine. I make changes in my desktop everyday, make it look eye candy.

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