On Mon Nov 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM GMT, Joe wrote:
Just to confuse matters, the Gnome organisation produces various applications which may be used with any desktop environment or window manager.
Indeed, and it's a good thing! And unfortunately, becoming a little less common. It's harder to functionally operate a modern GNOME application outside of the GNOME desktop than it used to be, for a variety of reasons (including client-side window decorations). Recent versions of gnome-control-center refuse to start at all unless it detects a running GNOME desktop, or you've set XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME in the environment.
-- Jonathan Dowland jmtd@debian.org https://jmtd.net