More ricing less productivity!

• gdm
  • gnome display manager
• sddm
  • kde desktop manager (simple desktop display manager)
• lightdm
  • usually xfce's display manager
• Cross desktop vars for configuration are XDG vars
  • XDG_DATA_HOME XDG_CONFIG_HOME XDG_STATE_HOME XDG_RUNTIME_DIR XDG_CACHE_HOME XDG_CONFIG_DIRS XDG_DATA_DIRS
• xfce
  • simple but lacks wayland support (planned some for 4.18 xfwm support?)
• gnome
  • javascript based desktop (leaked memory)
• kde
  • runs desktops with kioclient exec file.desktop
  • manjaro desktop package is plasma-meta
    • added konsole, unarchiver, kio-admin, gnustep-base, dolphin, ark, sweeper, sddm-breath-theme
  • qt based
    • QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland or webgl
    • qt project withholds patches for up to a year
  • alt+space then kquitapp5 plasmashell;plasmashell to restart desktop
  • kde6 has experimental hdr support
• aero (windows)
• quartz (mac)
• gamescope compositor for wayland desktops supports experimental HDR
  • ENABLE_HDR_WSI=1 gamescope --hdr-enabled --hdr-debug-force-output --steam -- env ENABLE_GAMESCOPE_WSI=1 DXVK_HDR=1 DISABLE_HDR_WSI=1 steam
  • use ENABLE_HDR_WSI=1 SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland for native games