Ubuntu 18.04 has programs such as Zoom (in Universal Access) and Night Light (in Displays). However, when I run Zoom, I see that gnome-shell is the responsible process in top.
And there aren't .desktop files in /usr/share/applications corresponding to Zoom or Night Light.
Is it correct to assume that these programs are integral to gnome-shell the way Adwaita is built-in and are not available to be used in other desktop environments with sudo apt install
?
Best Answer
TL;DR - yes, these Zoom and Night Light are only for GNOME.
As far as I can see from
htop
and other clues asTheir
Exec
fields are the following:They are shown only in:
above means only GNOME and Unity.
The top icon toggles GNOME specific configuation keys - for example Zoom toggles
between
true
andfalse
. And this setting is expected to be applicable only to GNOME.And Night Light toggles the GNOME-only configuration key:
So we can see that these Zoom and Night Light are related only to GNOME and Unity desktops.
Other desktop may have (or have not) alternatives for them. Night Light may be replaced with RedShift, accessibility tools are usually presented in desktops (for example MATE has
mate-at-properties
).