Graphical Desktop

Question 1

What does the service Display Manager do?

Answer 1

• keepts track of the displays being provided - Display Management
• loads X server (because it provides graphical services to applications) - Loads Graphical Desktop (X or Wayland)
• handles graphical logins and starts appropriate desktop environment after user login - Manage graphical logins

Question 2

What does a desktop environment consist of?

Answer 2

• sessions manager (starts and maintains components of the graphical sessions)
• window manager (controls placement and movement of windows, window title-bars and controls

Question 3

With what command can you manually start the graphical desktop, after logging on to a text-mode console?

Answer 3

• running startx from command line
• or starting display manager (gdm, kdm, xdm, …) manually from the command line

Question 4

What are popular display managers?

Answer 4

• gdm (for GNOME)
• kdm (associated with KDE)

Question 5

What does gnome tweaks allow and what is it?

Answer 5

• standard utility
• exposes many setting options
• allows installation of extensions

Question 6

What do more modern distributions differently in regards to gnome tweaks?

Answer 6

• have taken much utility out of the tool
• instead in a new tool called gnome-extensions-app