Desktop Environment
- A desktop environment is a series of programs that run on top of the
Window Manager.
- The desktop environment can contain a range of functionality including:
- Drawing enhancements, such as wallpapers, icons, themes
- Useful GUI programs, such as a file explorer
- Functionality not provided by the underlying Window Manager such as copy-paste and drag-drop
- The desktop environment can contain a range of functionality including:
- On Linux the most common desktop environments are KDE, Gnome, though there are a wide range of alternatives