Desktop Environments

LinuxDoors ships with Xfce and MATE. Six more full desktops install from the Packages page with a single command — pkg pulls in the whole dependency tree, and each one adds itself to the login screen’s session menu.

On the ISO

Installed by default — no download needed.

Included in the ISO

Xfce

4.20

The default LinuxDoors desktop — X11 + Mesa + GTK3, lightdm, panel, xfwm4, Thunar, xfce4-terminal. Lightweight by choice, not by missing pieces.

Included in the ISO

MATE

1.28

A full traditional-style GTK3 desktop — Marco, mate-panel, Caja, mate-terminal and the MATE control centre. Also bundled on the ISO, ready to pick at the login screen.

Install with `pkg`

Run the command in a terminal (or install the same packages from the LinuxDoors Package Manager), then log out and switch sessions. Every package is built from real upstream source.

KDE Plasma

6.7.4

Plasma Workspace, plasma-desktop, System Settings, KWin on X11, the Breeze theme and the full Plasma / KDE Frameworks 6.29 stack on Qt 6.11 — around 250 packages, all from real KDE source. The X11 session is fully working; the Wayland compositor is not built yet.

$ sudo pkg install plasma-desktop

GNOME

GNOME Shell 48, Mutter, GJS, gnome-session, gnome-settings-daemon, gnome-control-center, gnome-keyring and the Adwaita icon themes on GTK4 and libadwaita — a complete GNOME desktop compiled from real GNOME source. Runs as a GNOME on Xorg session. (Pinned to 48 — the last GNOME series that still supports an X11 session.)

$ sudo pkg install gnome-desktop

Cinnamon

6.4

The Linux Mint desktop — Cinnamon shell, Muffin, Nemo, the Cinnamon settings daemon, screensaver and control centre, built from Mint source against this project’s CJS 128 / mozjs 128.

$ sudo pkg install cinnamon-desktop

Budgie

10.9.4

The Budgie Desktop (last X11 release series) — the Budgie panel and Raven, budgie-daemon, its polkit and power dialogs, running on top of gnome-session with system Mutter as the window manager.

$ sudo pkg install budgie-desktop

LXQt

2.4

A lightweight Qt desktop — lxqt-session, the LXQt panel, config, runner, notification and power daemons, pcmanfm-qt and qterminal, with Openbox as the window manager. The lxqt-desktop package pulls in the whole set.

$ sudo pkg install lxqt-desktop

Enlightenment

0.27

The Enlightenment window manager / compositor (E27) on the EFL 1.28 libraries — its own lightweight toolkit and compositor, no GTK or Qt required.

$ sudo pkg install enlightenment

pkg needs root — sudo pkg install …, or su -c 'pkg install …' root. These desktops are not bundled in the ISO to keep the download small; installing one only adds it, and never removes Xfce or MATE. On the login screen, the session menu is the small icon next to the Log In button.