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This article Article description::provides a list of desktop environments available in Gentoo.

Available software

Name Package Description
Budgiegnome-extra/budgie-desktop[1]The flagship desktop of the Solus Project. It focuses on simplicity and elegance and is tightly integrated with the GNOME 3 stack.
Cinnamongnome-extra/cinnamonGNOME 3 fork with a traditional Windows-like interface.
Deepin Desktop Environmentdde-base/dde-meta[2]An elegant, easy to use and reliable domestic desktop evironment.
FVWM-Crystalx11-themes/fvwm-crystalEasy to use, powerful and pretty desktop environment.
GNOMEgnome-base/gnomeOne of the most widely-used desktop environments for Linux. A lighter alternative, gnome-base/gnome-light, is also available. Quite a few forks of GNOME have been created, including Cinnamon (early GNOME 3) and MATE (late GNOME 2).
KDE Plasmakde-plasma/plasma-metaBased on Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5. This is the desktop environment only. A wide range of related applications are available separately with kde-apps/kde-apps-meta.
LXDElxde-base/lxde-metaThe Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment.
LXQtlxqt-base/lxqt-metaA lightweight desktop environment based on the Qt toolkit.
Luminax11-wm/luminaA lightweight desktop environment, free of dbus and *kit.
MATEmate-base/mateA fork of the GNOME 2 desktop environment.
Pantheonpantheon-base/pantheon[3]A new lightweight, modular desktop environment primarily written in Vala.
Razor-qtN/AA desktop environment that was based on the Qt framework. Merged with the Qt port of LXDE and became LXQt.
TDEtrinity-base/tdebase-meta[4]A fork of KDE 3.5.
Xfcexfce-base/xfce4-metaA fully featured lightweight desktop environment.

References

  1. ↑ available in the sabayon repository
  2. ↑ available in the deepin repository
  3. ↑ available in the elementary repository
  4. ↑ available in the trinity repository

See also

  • Display manager — presents the user with a graphical login screen to start a GUI session, either X or Wayland.
  • Window manager — manages the creation, manipulation, and destruction of on-screen windows.
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