Desktop environments and Window managers

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The desktop environment in Alpine has two main flavors: One supported officially by the Alpine desktop team and one by the community. The official desktops for Alpine are Xfce4 and LXDE and the community contributed desktops are Mate, AWM and the bigger [[Gnome Setup|Gnome]]

Please, if you find something not easy to understand about the integration of the variety of programs, take in consideration further reading till the end of this page to understand important notes about [[Alpine_newbie_desktops#Behavior_of_Desktop_Environments_in_Linux|Behavior of Desktop Environments in Linux]]

'''So you can choose from those options or follow the next suggested [[Alpine Newbies Openbox Window Manager|Alpine Newbies: Xorg and Openbox]]''' page.

= Alpine Desktops: Official Desktop =

There's two official supported desktops, [[Alpine Newbies XFCE Desktop Environment|XFCE Desktop Environment]] and [[Alpine Newbies LXDE Desktop Environment|LXDE Desktop]], that last make also available the [[Alpine Newbies Openbox Window Manager|Openbox Window Manager]].

# [[Alpine Newbies XFCE Desktop Environment]]
# [[Alpine Newbies LXDE Desktop Environment]]
# [[Alpine Newbies Openbox Window Manager]]

= Alpine Desktops: Community Contributions =

There's some contributions desktop available using the Community Repository Packages like the [Alpine Newbies MATE Desktop Environment|MATE Desktop environment]] due some others need Wayland that has some compatibility problems:

# [[Alpine Newbies MATE Desktop Environment]]
# [[Awesome(wm)_Setup|Awesome Window Manager]]

= Alpine Desktops: Upstream and external ones =

All of the original upstream desktops can be installed by the traditional Unix-like method by downloading and compiling it:

# [[Dwm|Dynamic Window Manager for X]]
# [[Alpine LXQT Desktop Environment]]

= Alpine Desktops: Multimedia =

After having your preferred desktop you can also an improvement to your desktop with:

* [[Alpine multimedia for users]] (Audio and video multimedia related software and setup)
* [[Alpine multimedia for editing and amateurs]] (Amateur related such editing and converting tools)

= Alpine Desktops: emulation and gamming =

Alpine is capable of providing a good platform to play games and enjoy:

* [[Alpine games packages and options]]
* [[Alpine emulators packages and options]]
* [[Alpine games from upstreams sources]]
* [[Alpine emulators from upstreams sources]]

= Tutorial series =

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| [[Alpine newbie apk packages]] || [[Alpine Newbies Openbox Window Manager|Alpine Newbies: Xorg and Openbox]]
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= See Also =

# [[Alpine newbie]]
# [[Alpine newbie install manual]]
# [[Alpine newbie apk packages]]
# [[Alpine newbie desktops]]
# [[Alpine newbie developer]]
# [[Alpine newbie lammers]]

[[Category:Desktop]]
[[Category:Multimedia]]

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Desktop environments and Window managers