Miss glossy, playful UI? These GNOME extensions add 3D flair and fun effects in minutes, no theme overhaul required.

If you combine the Xfce desktop with the Compiz compositing window manager, you get a desktop with a bit more panache than if you were to use Xfce alone. Compiz helps to turn Xfce into something akin ...

I'm loving Linux, but I keep seeing screenshots and videos of these tricked-out, super-customized interfaces with things like the desktop cube and I'm not sure where to find them in the settings. How ...

One of the most common uses for Linux is to breathe life back into old hardware. Yet certain desktop environments like KDE Plasma can still feel sluggish on aging hardware. The old laptop I pulled out ...

Most of the products covered in Mac Gems are useful—they help increase your productivity or reduce your frustration. But every once in a while it’s good to have some fun. (OK, so it’s also good to get ...

Ok, now, this is odd.<BR>I have a Ubuntu 8.04 that worked perfectly, disabled the Desktop Effects a minute for a test, and now I can't start them again.<BR>Haven't updated the kernel, nor anything, ...

We were impressed with the big improvements in the first KDE 4.2 beta when it was released earlier this month. It fixed a lot of bugs and brought some impressive new features to the Plasma panel ...

Late last month the Linux Mint developers announced that they were working on a brand-new desktop environment designed to offer an alternative to the controversial GNOME 3, and on Monday they ...

Clement Lefebvre, lead developer of Linux Mint, has announced the first "fully stable" version of its new GNOME 2.x-like "Cinnamon 1.2" fork of the GNOME 3.x desktop environment is now available for ...

Linux is all about choice, and choosing a distribution is only the first step. Linux distros usually have a default desktop environment, but there are a slew of desktop environments available to use.