Take good care to select applications fitting with your main environment, in order to avoid overloading the graphical libraries. This difference in the usage of the graphical libraries, generates the doubling of the dependencies when installing on a GTK system, an application which was developed for the KDE environment (and vice versa). All the desktops, available by default on Debian, operate with the GTK rendering engine, except KDE which operates with Qt. To display on the screen the graphical interface, each desktop uses a rendering engine depending upon certain libraries.
The Xfce desktop with the application menu and Thunar The user button which allows you to quit your working session, stop or restart your computer,Ī file manager window which displays the folders contained in your home directory. The notification area, (showing the wired network connection), The ' application menu' listing your installed software,Ī collection of launchers (small icons) for your favorite applications, The ' panel ' or task bar (at the top of the screen, in this example, but can be moved wherever you wish)) which includes, from left to right: On this simple image, you can already identify the first elements which are explained below in this handbook: Let's start by looking at the various elements displayed on the screen.
