Desktop Environment
Sufyan bin Uzayr · 2022
A desktop environment is a set of components that provide standard GUI elements such as icons, toolbars, wallpapers, and desktop widgets. The desktop environment is what you can call “the graphics shell,” enabling the user to interact with the core operating system with their mouse and keyboard. The primary purpose of distribution is to make utilization of the capabilities of OS. It needs an interface that acts as a bridge for quickly understanding and processing user requirements by the kernel. The components that make up a desktop environment include a file manager that displays all the files and folders in the system in a structured format, window manager, image viewer, video and audio player, calculator, browser, display manager, and all other applications software and utilities you can think of in an operating system. The same desktop environment can be available on several Linux distributions, and a Linux distribution may offer several desktop environments.