Industry inventory: five least popular desktop environments

KDE, GNOME, and Xfce are the most famous desktop environments in Linux. Because they are stable and easy to use, many of the pre-installed desktop environments of the release version are all of them. But do you know other desktop environments with poor functionality? The following describes the five most popular Linux desktop environments.

EDE

Equinox Desktop Environment (EDE) can be used to describe "simple and fast-running small Desktop" in one sentence ". EDE is modified from FLTK (known as extended FLTK or eFLTK ). EDE occupies a small amount of memory, and its window manager occupies less memory than xterm.

XFast

XFast is a lightweight desktop environment that combines X and window manager. Its goal is to build a graphical interface that can be embedded into the system and consumes low resources, but runs fast. XFast is a branch of Xynth windowsing system. It is separated from the original project to add some modifications that require long-term existence and are incompatible with the original project.

LXDE

LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) is a Lightweight Desktop Environment. If your machine is an old one, this is a suitable desktop environment. LXDE is now the default desktop environment for some lightweight releases, such as SliTaz and TinyMe. Unlike other desktops, LXDE components are not closely linked, which means you can choose to run one or more of them.

Mezzo

Mezzo is the desktop of Symphony OS, but some earlier versions of Mezzo are packaged in DEB format, so that Mezzo desktop can be easily installed in Debian-based releases such as Ubuntu. Mezzo's design concept is "The desktop is a folder", which uses nested system menus to organize all useful information. The window manager used by Mezzo is FVWM.

Project Looking Glass

Project Looking Glass is an innovative 3D desktop environment sponsored by Sun Microsystems. It is written in Java, so to run this desktop environment, you must configure the Java environment. The most creative feature of Project Looking Glass is that it can reverse the window. All windows are set to 2D or 2.5D by default. Of course, you also need to change it to 3D.

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