Raspberry Pi OS Desktop Environment Anatomy

Chapter: 11 — Booting, the Desktop, and the Linux Terminal on the Pi 500+

About This Poster¶

This chapter defines desktop environment, window manager, and file manager in prose — this poster maps each term onto the region a student actually sees the first time they boot a Pi 500+.

How to Use¶

Explore — hover or tap a numbered marker to read about that region.
Quiz — test whether you can identify each region from a visual hint alone.
Edit mode — open main.html?edit=true to drag markers and recalibrate positions once the poster image is generated.

Labeled Structures¶

Application Menu
Taskbar
System Tray
Desktop Icons
File Manager Window
Window Title Bar
Terminal Emulator Window
Shell Prompt