Desktop environments and Window managers
Tip: Be sure to add your user to
input
and video
groups.Alpine Linux has no official desktop. Older versions used Xfce, but now all GUI and graphical interfaces are optional. many are available and are attempted to be listed below:
Desktop Environments
See also: Desktop Environments Category
Window Managers
See also: Window Managers Category
Stacking (floating) window managers
- X11:
Tiling (dynamic) window managers
- X11:
- bspwm
- herbstluftwm
- dwm
- i3
- Awesome Window Manager
- Ratpoison (Available in Edge branch under the testing repository)
- spectrwm (Available in Edge Branch under the testing repository)
- Qtile (Available in Edge Branch under the testing repository)
- Wayland:
Other Window Managers
- Wayland
- Cage - Wayland Compositor for running single app on fullscreen mode (kiosk)