Desktop environments and Window managers

Alpine Linux has no official desktop. Older versions used Xfce, but now all GUI and graphical interfaces are optional. Quickstart install using setup-desktop utility is available for few desktops environments.

All window managers and desktop environments that are available in Alpine Linux are listed in this page.

Desktop Environments

See also: Desktop Environments Category

• Xfce
• LXQt
• KDE Plasma
• GNOME
• MATE

Window Managers

See also: Window Managers Category

Stacking (floating) window managers

• X11:
  • Openbox

• Wayland:
  • Weston
  • LabWC
  • Wayfire

Tiling (dynamic) window managers

• X11:
  • bspwm
  • herbstluftwm
  • twm
  • dwm
  • i3
  • Awesome Window Manager
  • Ratpoison
  • spectrwm
  • Qtile (Available in Edge Branch under the testing repository)

• Wayland:
  • Sway
  • River
  • Cagebreak
  • dwl (Available in Edge Branch under the testing repository)
  • Qtile (Available in Edge Branch under the testing repository)

Other Window Managers

• Wayland
  • Cage - Wayland Compositor for running single app on fullscreen mode (kiosk)

See Also

• Installation
• Post Installation
• Input and video groups
• Fonts
• Wayland
• Category:Display Managers
• Desktop environment - Archwiki
• Desktop environment - Gentoo Wiki