Application launchers play an integral part in making the Linux desktop a more productive environment to work and play.
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Tag: desktop
Best Free and Open Source Software – Desktop
Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering desktop environments, KDE plasma widgets, GNOME extensions, window managers, and docks.
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Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Extend your Desktop – Part 22
We look at a couple of ways you can extend your GNOME desktop. We first cover extensions before moving on to exploring themes.
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36 Excellent GNOME Desktop Extensions (Updated 2022)
Add additional functionality to a GNOME desktop with these great GNOME extensions. This roundup showcases 36 excellent GNOME extensions.
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Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Managing Users – Part 15
We investigate how to manage users using both the GUI and the command-line. This article is part of the Linux for Starters Guide.
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Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Navigating the Desktop – Part 6
This article guides you around the desktop in Ubuntu. It’s part of our Linux for Starters series teaching you all the basics.
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Now and Then: The Development of 6 Lean Desktop Environments
Back in early 2008, we published a feature recommending the best 6 lean desktop environments. How did they fare?
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Linux Candy: XDecorations – Holiday lights and more
XDecorations is a small utility that lets you add decorations to your desktop. It’s our latest addition to the fun Linux Candy series.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Web Browsing – Week 4
This week’s blog focuses on an absolutely essential desktop activity. Surfing the web. A web browser is the quintessential desktop application. Everyone needs one, and there is not a desktop Linux distribution around that does not make a web browser available.
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KSmoothDock – excellent KDE Plasma 5 desktop panel with parabolic zooming
KSmoothDock is a cool desktop panel with parabolic zooming effect for KDE Plasma 5. While visually it is inspired by Mac OS X’s Dock, it aims to follow the traditional Linux model of desktop panel with the application menu, launchers, the pager, the task manager, the system tray and the clock.
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Latte – Excellent KDE Dock based on Plasma Frameworks
Latte is a dock based on Plasma frameworks that aims to offer an elegant and intuitive experience for your tasks and KDE Plasma widgets. It animates its contents by using parabolic zoom effect and tries to be as unobtrusive is possible.
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Linux Desktop Environments: Pantheon, Trinity, LXDE
Our article “Best Linux Desktop Environments: Strong and Stable” surveyed 9 strong and stable Linux desktop environments (DEs). Due to popular demand, this article extends that survey with 3 other desktops: Pantheon, Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE), and LXDE. We examine their features, user experience, resources footprint, extensibility, and documentation, and compare them to the 9 desktops covered in the original article.
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Low-Spec Hardware? Try these Desktop Environments
Popular Linux distributions for beginners typically default to one of two desktop environments, KDE or GNOME. Both of these environments provide users with an intuitive and attractive desktop, as well as offering all the applications users love, ranging from multimedia software, games, administration programs, network tools, educational applications, utilities, artwork, web development tools and more. However, these two desktops focus more on providing users with a modern computing environment with all the bells and whistles, rather than minimising the amount of system resources they use.
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