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• Enlightenment vs Xfwm4The lightweight window manager of the Xfce desktop, with a built-in compositor and themes.
• Enlightenment vs OpenboxManage X11 windows with a configurable stacking window manager.
• Enlightenment vs KWinThe compositing window manager and Wayland compositor that powers the KDE Plasma desktop.
• Enlightenment vs Window MakerAn X11 stacking window manager that reproduces the look and feel of NeXTSTEP.
• Enlightenment vs FVWM3A highly configurable X11 window manager, the successor to fvwm2, with multi-monitor support.
• Enlightenment vs LXQtLXQt is a lightweight Qt-based desktop for Linux and BSD with X11 and usable Wayland sessions, compared with Enlightenment's experimental Wayland support.
• Enlightenment vs XfceXfce is a modular desktop built around traditional panels and a settings manager, with components distributions can combine, rather than a single EFL-based shell.
• Enlightenment vs KDE PlasmaKDE Plasma is a full Linux desktop with configurable panels, widgets and window behaviour, integrated with KDE applications, and heavier than Enlightenment's minimal shell.
• Enlightenment vs CinnamonCinnamon provides a traditional application menu, panel and system tray with applets, desklets and extensions, under GPL-2.0.
• Enlightenment vs GNOMEGNOME organises the desktop around an activities overview and workspaces with consistent settings, though shell extensions must match the installed version.
• Enlightenment vs COSMICCOSMIC is System76's desktop environment with configurable workspaces and both tiling and floating workflows, needing a distribution and graphics stack that support it.
• Enlightenment vs MATEMATE continues the GNOME 2 traditional desktop layout and is packaged in many distributions, with full releases arriving every few years.
• Enlightenment vs BudgieBudgie is a simple, tidy Linux desktop with its own panel and application menu, usually installed through a distribution with regular releases.