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3 unusual facts about Desktop environment


Avon-Maitland Distance Education Centre

In the FirstClass classroom desktop, a teacher posts notes to all the students in the class and maintains the class calendar.

Desktop

Desktop environment, software that provides a comprehensive computer user interface

Desktop environment

Some window managers — such as IceWM, Fluxbox, ROX Desktop and Window Maker — contain rudimentary desktop environment elements, such as an integrated spatial file manager, while others like evilwm and wmii do not provide such elements.


Control-V

In many GUI environments, including Microsoft Windows and most desktop environments based on the X Window System, and in applications such as word processing software running in those environments, control-V can be used to paste text or other content (if supported) from the clipboard at the current cursor position.

Print screen

In GNOME and KDE desktop environments, a screenshot file is automatically saved in the Pictures folder of the user.

Sun Java Workstation

The Java Workstation name alluded to the workstations being intended to run Sun's Java Desktop System, a GNOME-based desktop environment.


see also

GlobalView

GlobalView was an integrated “desktop environment” including word-processing, desktop-publishing, and simple calculation (spreadsheet) and database functionality, developed at Xerox Parc as a way to run the software originally developed for their Xerox Alto, Xerox Star and Xerox Daybreak 6085 specialized workstations on SUN Microsystems workstations and IBM PC-based platforms.

Install Party des Savoie

During a day, people from Pays de Savoie, which is both Savoie and Haute-Savoie departements, is welcomed to get familiar with a new desktop environment, GNU/Linux, renowned for its ability to be reliable and virus-free.

Nodoka

Nodoka, a theme for the GNOME desktop environment provided as part of the Fedora Linux distribution