Comparison of X Window System desktop environments: Difference between revisions

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A [[desktop environment]] is a collection of software designed to give functionality and a certain [[look and feel]] to an [[operating system]].

This article applies to [[operating system]]s which are capable of running the [[X Window System]], mostly [[Unix]] and [[Unix-like]] operating systems such as [[Linux]], [[Minix]], [[illumos]], [[Solaris (operating system)|Solaris]], [[IBM AIX|AIX]], [[FreeBSD]] and [[Mac OS X]].<ref>[http://www.xfree86.org/ XFree86 Official Website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031020210433/http://xfree86.org/ |date=2003-10-20 }} line 5</ref> [[Microsoft Windows]] is incapable of natively running X applications; however, third-party X servers like [[Cygwin/X]], [[Hummingbird Ltd.|Exceed]], or [[Xming]] are available.<ref>[http://x.cygwin.com/ Cygwin/X website]</ref><ref>[http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming Xming project homepage on SourceForge]</ref>

== Technical elements of a desktop environment ==

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==System resources utilization==

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A 2011 test by [[Phoronix]] with the default installation of [[Ubuntu Linux|Ubuntu]] 10.04 showed that [[LXDE]] 0.5's memory utilization was lower than that of [[Xfce]] 4.6, which in turn was lower than that of [[GNOME]] 2.29, with [[KDE Software Compilation|KDE]] 4.4 using the most RAM compared to the aforementioned desktops.<ref>{{cite web|last=Larabel|first=Michael|title=Phoronix: Power & Memory Usage Of GNOME, KDE, LXDE & Xfce|url=https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_desktop_vitals&num=1|publisher=Phoronix|accessdate=30 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180903042338/https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_desktop_vitals&num=1|archive-date=3 September 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>[http://www.porteus.org/info/features.html RAM use of LXDE vs Xfce in Porteus again confirms that LXDE is about 1/2 of that of Xfce]</ref>

In 2015, it was demonstrated in benchmarks that LXDE performed slightly faster than Xfce overall (in the average of all tests), using the Fedora Linux operating system.<ref>[https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=fedora-23-desktops&num=2 Phoronix]</ref>