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COSMIC is made from scratch and is not based on any existing desktop environment. [5] It features a custom theming system, utilizes the Rust-based iced graphics toolkit, streamlined window tiling, and its own applications (a text editor, a terminal emulator, a file manager, a settings application, and an app store).
The Wayland core protocol does not support communication between Wayland clients at all as the corresponding functionality (if needed) is regarded by the Wayland community as something which should be implemented by the desktop environments (like KDE or GNOME), or by a third party (for example, by using native IPC of the underlying operating ...
Pop OS (stylized as Pop!_OS) is a free and open-source Linux distribution, based on Ubuntu, and featuring a customized GNOME desktop environment known as COSMIC.The distribution is developed by American Linux computer manufacturer System76.
It also supports Wayland. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] LightDM is the default display manager for Edubuntu , Xubuntu and Mythbuntu since the 11.10 release, [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] for Lubuntu since the 12.04 release [ 13 ] until 16.10, [ 14 ] for Kubuntu beginning with 12.10 [ 15 ] until 15.04 [ 16 ] for Linux Mint [ 17 ] and Antergos .
Mutter is a window manager initially designed and implemented for the X Window System, but then evolved to be a Wayland compositor. It became the default window manager in GNOME 3, replacing Metacity [4] which used GTK for rendering. "Mutter" is a combination of "Metacity" and "Clutter".
KWin is a window manager for the X Window System and a Wayland compositor. [2] [3] It is released as a part of KDE Plasma, for which it is the default window manager. KWin can also be used on its own or with other desktop environments. KWin can be configured by scripting using QML or QtScript, both of which are based on ECMAScript. [4]
Following several attempts to extend GNOME 3 so that it would suit the Linux Mint design goals through "Mint GNOME Shell Extensions", the Linux Mint team eventually forked several GNOME 3 components to build an independent desktop environment. This separation from GNOME was finished with the release of Cinnamon 2.0.0 on October 9, 2013.
Perberos, an Argentine user of Arch Linux, started the MATE project [8] to fork and continue GNOME 2 in response to the negative reception of GNOME 3, which had replaced its traditional taskbar (GNOME Panel) with GNOME Shell. MATE aims to maintain and continue the latest GNOME 2 code base, frameworks, and core applications. [9] [10] [11]