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For me, it's Shared GPU memory.

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[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Depending on your DE, you can have those no problem. You just symlink to the respective .desktop file for the program you want to run. So for example, if you wanna start Firefox from your desktop, you'd look for a file called Firefox.desktop on your system (probably living under /usr) and symlink to that from ~/Desktop.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

what parts of it do you miss exactly?

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

On Windows it feels like a feature. On Gnome it feels like the desktop folder being shown on the Desktop.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

hmm. I have to admit I don't understand the difference. on windows it's the desktop folder, plus a few separate icons to system utilities with some way to filter them. did you mean that?

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 3 weeks ago

I honestly don't know.