Desktop environments and Window managers

Alpine Linux has no official desktop and setting up a graphical environment is not even part of Installation. All window managers and desktop environments that are available in Alpine Linux are listed in this page. Quick installation using setup-desktop script is available for few desktops. For servers consider Alpine Configuration Framework(ACF).

Desktop Environments

• Xfce
• LXQt
• KDE Plasma
• GNOME
• MATE

Window Managers

Stacking window managers

(also known as floating window maanagers)

• X11:
  • Openbox

• Wayland:
  • Weston
  • LabWC
  • wayfire

Tiling window managers

(also known as Dynamic window maanagers)

• X11:
  • bspwm
  • herbstluftwm
  • twm
  • dwm
  • i3
  • Awesome
  • ratpoison
  • spectrwm
  • qtile

• Wayland:
  • Sway
  • River
  • cagebreak
  • dwl
  • hyprland

Other Window Managers

• Wayland
  • cage (kiosk mode)

See Also

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