Just wm, not wm/de. "Desktop environment" is a vague term, there's no such process. The thing running the windows is always the window manager (Sway, KWin, Mutter etc).
isn't the wm still seperate from the desktop in most cases? iirc gnomes mutter is "usable" standalone and there's another process on top that implements the actual desktop shell
uhh yea im on 5 hours sleep i apologize if my wording sucks ass
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u/Fine_City2781 3d ago
shell is also a process. It's like this: init { processes, wm/de, term { bash/zsh { process, bg_processes } } }