Comparison of desktop environments

See Desktop environment for the main article.

Desktop environment Widget toolkit X11 window manager Wayland compositor Taskbar Terminal emulator File manager Calculator Text editor Image viewer Media player Document viewer Display manager
Budgie gtk3 magpie-wm –
(ongoing)		 budgie-desktop gnome-terminal nautilus gnome-calculator gedit eog totem evince gdm
Cinnamon gtk3 xapp muffin muffin
(experimental)		 cinnamon gnome-terminal nemo gnome-calculator xed xviewerAUR celluloid xreader lightdm-gtk-greeter
COSMIC iced libcosmic – cosmic-comp cosmic-panel cosmic-terminal cosmic-files – cosmic-text-editor – cosmic-player – cosmic-greeter
Cutefish qt5-base fishui kwin-x11 – cutefish-dock cutefish-statusbar cutefish-terminal cutefish-filemanager cutefish-calculator – – – – sddm
Deepin qt5-base qt6-base dtk6widget deepin-kwin treeland
(experimental)		 deepin-shell deepin-terminal deepin-file-manager deepin-calculator deepin-editor deepin-image-viewer deepin-movie – deepin-session-shell
Enlightenment efl enlightenment enlightenment
(experimental)		 enlightenment terminology enlightenment – ecrire ephoto rage – –
GNOME gtk3 gtk4 libadwaita mutter
(deprecated)		 mutter gnome-shell gnome-console nautilus gnome-calculator gnome-text-editor loupe decibels totem evince gdm
GNOME Flashback gtk3 gtk4 libadwaita metacity – gnome-panel gnome-console nautilus gnome-calculator gnome-text-editor loupe decibels totem evince gdm
KDE Plasma qt6-base kcoreaddons kwin-x11 kwin plasma-desktop konsole dolphin kcalc kate gwenview elisa haruna okular sddm
LXDE GTK 2 gtk2 Openbox – lxpanel lxterminal-gtk2AUR pcmanfm – leafpad gpicview lxmusic atril lxdm
LXDE GTK 3 gtk3 Openbox – lxpanel-gtk3 lxterminal pcmanfm-gtk3 galculator l3afpad gpicview lxmusic atril lxdm-gtk3
LXQt qt6-base Openbox Labwc
(experimental)		 lxqt-panel qterminal pcmanfm-qt speedcrunch featherpad lximage-qt smplayer qpdfviewAUR sddm
MATE gtk3 marco –
(ongoing)		 mate-panel mate-terminal caja mate-calc pluma eom parole atril lightdm-gtk-greeter
Pantheon gtk3 gtk4 granite7 gala gala
(experimental)		 plank wingpanel pantheon-terminal pantheon-files pantheon-calculator pantheon-code pantheon-photos pantheon-videos evince lightdm-pantheon-greeter
Sugar gtk3 sugar-toolkit-gtk3 metacity – sugar sugar-activity-terminal sugar sugar-activity-calculate sugar-activity-write sugar-activity-imageviewer sugar-activity-jukebox sugar-activity-read lightdm-gtk-greeter
UKUI qt5-base ukwm – ukui-panel – peony – – – – – ukui-greeter
Xfce gtk3 libxfce4ui xfwm4 Labwc
(experimental)		 xfce4-panel xfce4-terminal thunar galculator mousepad ristretto parole atril lightdm-gtk-greeter

See also

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