Tutorial or sources to learn about desktop environemts?

**Nayab Basha Sayed** · February 22nd, 2014

I know there are different desktop environments. Is there separate terminal commands for each desktop environmet or same for all? What is the difference?

**papibe** · February 22nd, 2014

Hi Nayab Basha Sayed.

All terminals run bash these days, so inside the terminal it's all the same. The terminal window may have different options like custom colors, and backgrounds.

AFAIK, there's a definitive guide to all Linux desktop environments. There are lots of them. Among the most popular are Unity, Gnome, KDE, Xfce and LXDE.

Here's a few articles you may find useful:

Hope it helps. Let us know how it goes.
Regards.

**fdrake** · February 22nd, 2014

here are my 2cents: http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/30/h...ment-in-linux/

**andrew.46** · February 23rd, 2014

Originally Posted by papibe

All terminals run bash these days[...]

You are risking the ire of ksh, csh and friends

**papibe** · February 23rd, 2014

Originally Posted by andrew.46

You are risking the ire of ksh, csh and friends

I didn't mean to...

for the record I used to run tcsh back in the days of Ultrix and SunOS 4.1.2

Regards.

**Nayab Basha Sayed** · February 23rd, 2014

Originally Posted by papibe

Hi Nayab Basha Sayed.

All terminals run bash these days, so inside the terminal it's all the same. The terminal window may have different options like custom colors, and backgrounds.

AFAIK, there's a definitive guide to all Linux desktop environments. There are lots of them. Among the most popular are Unity, Gnome, KDE, Xfce and LXDE.

Here's a few articles you may find useful:

Hope it helps. Let us know how it goes.
Regards.

Thank you very much

**Nayab Basha Sayed** · February 23rd, 2014

Originally Posted by fdrake

here are my 2cents: http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/30/h...ment-in-linux/

Thank you

**Rob Sayer** · February 28th, 2014

Some terminal commands may be different but only because they involve running programs that come with one desktop but not another.

The underlying linux system is the same. Unlike windows, in linux/unix the desktop GUI is just another bit of application software.

For example, anything to do with hardware configuration involves the kernel. It's the same thing in all ubuntu desktops.