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Desktop environment
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This article provides a list of desktop environments available in Gentoo.
Available software
| Name | Package | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Budgie | gnome-extra/budgie-desktop[1] | The flagship desktop of the Solus Project. It focuses on simplicity and elegance and is tightly integrated with the GNOME 3 stack. |
| Cinnamon | gnome-extra/cinnamon | GNOME 3 fork with a traditional Windows-like interface. |
| FVWM-Crystal | x11-themes/fvwm-crystal | Easy to use, powerful and pretty desktop environment. |
| GNOME | gnome-base/gnome | One of the most widely-used desktop environments for Linux. A lighter alternative, gnome-base/gnome-light, is also available. Quite a few forks of GNOME have been created, including Cinnamon (early GNOME 3) and MATE (late GNOME 2). |
| KDE Plasma | kde-plasma/plasma-meta | Based on Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5. This is the desktop environment only. A wide range of related applications are available separately with kde-apps/kde-apps-meta. |
| LXDE | lxde-base/lxde-meta | The Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment. |
| LXQt | lxqt-base/lxqt-meta | A lightweight desktop environment based on the Qt toolkit. |
| Lumina | x11-wm/lumina | A lightweight desktop environment, free of dbus and *kit. |
| MATE | mate-base/mate | A fork of the GNOME 2 desktop environment. |
| Pantheon | pantheon-base/pantheon[2] | A new lightweight, modular desktop environment primarily written in Vala. |
| Razor-qt | N/A | A desktop environment that was based on the Qt framework. Merged with the Qt port of LXDE and became LXQt. |
| TDE | trinity-base/tdebase-meta[3] | A fork of KDE 3.5. |
| Xfce | xfce-base/xfce4-meta | A fully featured lightweight desktop environment. |
References
See also
- Display manager — presents the user with a graphical login screen to start an X server session.
- Window manager — manages the creation, manipulation, and destruction of on-screen windows.