Desktop environments and Window managers: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 06:35, 22 November 2024

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

Window Managers

Stacking window managers

(also known as floating window maanagers)

X11:
- Openbox
- Fluxbox

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)

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 * X11:
 ** [[Openbox]]
+** [[Fluxbox]]
 * Wayland:
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 ** {{Pkg|cagebreak|arch=}}
 ** {{Pkg|dwl|arch=}}
-** {{Pkg|hyprland|arch=}}
+** [[Hyprland]]
 === Other Window Managers ===
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 * [[Fonts]]
 * [[Wayland]]
-* [[:Category:Display Managers]]
+* [[Xorg]]
+* [[Display manager]]
 * [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Desktop_environment Desktop environment - Archwiki]
 * [https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Desktop_environment Desktop environment - Gentoo Wiki]