This desktop is an environment assembled like a construction set on top of Arch Linux. Such a desktop isn’t one of the complete official desktop environments, like Gnome or KDE, but is a custom build that includes pieces from various environments, including the ones mentioned above.
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Main elements of the desktop from the screenshot:
- Tiling window manager — BSPWM
- Status bar — Polybar
- Separate auto-hiding panel for the system tray — Tint2
- Compositor — Picom (a fork of jonaburg)
- Power manager — Xfce4 power manager
- Network manager — Network Manager
- Package installation and update manager — Pamac
- Terminal emulator — Alacritty
- Web browser — Firefox
- File manager — Nemo
- Code editors — Geany, Neovim
I’ll make a separate post about installing and configuring such an environment in the future.
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