Desktop environments and Window managers: Difference between revisions

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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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-The desktop environment '''in Alpine has no official desktops. Older versions had Xfce4, but now, all GUI and graphical interfaces are community contributed'''. Environments such as LXDE, Mate, etc are available, but are not fully supported due to some bloated integration.
-Please, if you find something hard to understand about the integration of the variety of programs, consider further reading until the end of this page to understand important notes about the [[Alpine_newbie_desktops#Behavior_of_Desktop_Environments_in_Linux|Behavior of Desktop Environments in Linux]]
+<!-- COMMENT FOR EDITORS
+Do not add any content about specific desktop environment or window manager in this page. Please add all the content to the respective wiki pages. If wiki page does not exist for the specific window manage, please create and add the content.
-'''So you can choose from those options or follow the next suggested [[Alpine Newbies Openbox Window Manager|Alpine Newbies: Xorg and Openbox]]''' page.
+This page lists only the window managers and desktop environments for which packages are available in Alpine Linux. Do not add unsupported software here
-= Alpine Desktops: Complete Desktops =
+-->
-Alpine is not a graphics-focused system, however there are several complete desktops packages available for installation:
+'''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 [[Alpine_setup_scripts#setup-desktop|setup-desktop]] script is available for few [[Setup-desktop|desktops]]. For servers consider [[Alpine_Configuration_Framework_Design#Starting_ACF|Alpine Configuration Framework(ACF)]].
-# [[XFCE Setup]]
+== Desktop Environments ==
-# [[Alpine Newbies LXDE Desktop Environment]]
-# [[Alpine Newbies Openbox Window Manager]]
-# [[KDE]]
-# [[Gnome Setup]]
-= Alpine Desktops: Community Contributions =
-There are some contributions that will periodically be complete desktops available using the Community Repository Packages, like the [[Alpine Newbies MATE Desktop Environment|MATE Desktop environment]]; others need Wayland, causing some compatibility problems:
+* [[Xfce]]
+* [[LXQt]]
+* [[KDE|KDE Plasma]]
+* [[GNOME]]
+* [[MATE]]
-# [[MATE]]
+== Window Managers ==
-# [[Awesome(wm)_Setup|Awesome Window Manager]]
-= Alpine Desktops: Upstream and external ones =
+===  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacking_window_manager Stacking window managers] ===
+(also known as '''floating window maanagers''')
+* X11:
+** [[Openbox]]
+** [[Fluxbox]]
-All of the original upstream desktops can be installed using the traditional Unix-like method of downloading and compiling them:
+* Wayland:
+** [[Weston]]
+** [[LabWC]]
+**  {{Pkg|wayfire|arch=}}
-# [[Dwm|Dynamic Window Manager for X]]
+=== [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager Tiling window managers] ===
-# [[Alpine LXQT Desktop Environment]]
+(also known as '''Dynamic window maanagers''')
+* X11:
+** {{Pkg|bspwm|arch=}}
+** {{Pkg|herbstluftwm|arch=}}
+** [[twm]]
+** [[dwm]]
+** [[I3wm|i3]]
+** [[AwesomeWM|Awesome]]
+** {{Pkg|ratpoison|arch=}}
+** {{Pkg|spectrwm |arch=}}
+** {{Pkg|qtile |arch=}}
-= Alpine Desktops: Multimedia =
+* Wayland:
+** [[Sway]]
+** [[River]]
+** {{Pkg|cagebreak|arch=}}
+** {{Pkg|dwl|arch=}}
+** [[Hyprland]]
-After getting your preferred desktop, you can also improve your desktop with:
+=== Other Window Managers ===
-* [[Alpine multimedia for users]] (Audio and video multimedia related software and setup)
+* Wayland
-* [[Alpine multimedia for editing and amateurs]] (Amateur related such editing and converting tools)
+** {{Pkg|cage |arch=}} ('''kiosk''' mode)
-= Alpine Desktops: emulation and gaming =
+== See Also ==
+* [[:Category:Desktop Environments|Desktop Environments]]
-Alpine is capable of providing a good platform to play games and enjoy:
+* [[:Category:Window Managers|Window Managers]]
+* [[Installation#Post-Installation|Post Installation]]
-* [[Alpine games packages and options]]
+* [[Seat_manager#Input_and_video_groups|Input and video groups]]
-* [[Alpine emulators packages and options]]
+* [[Fonts]]
-* [[Alpine games from upstreams sources]]
+* [[Wayland]]
-* [[Alpine emulators from upstreams sources]]
+* [[Xorg]]
+* [[Display manager]]
-= Tutorial series =
+* [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Desktop_environment Desktop environment - Archwiki]
+* [https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Desktop_environment Desktop environment - Gentoo Wiki]
-{| class="wikitable"
-|-
-! Previous required  !! What's next to read
-|-
-| [[Alpine newbie apk packages]] || [[Alpine Newbies Openbox Window Manager|Alpine Newbies: Xorg and Openbox]]
-|}
-= See Also =
-* [[Fonts|Fonts configuration and settings in alpine]]
-* [[Alpine newbie]]
-* [[Alpine newbie install manual]]
-* [[Alpine newbie apk packages]]
-* [[Alpine newbie developer]]
-* [[Alpine newbie lammers]]
 [[Category:Desktop]]
-[[Category:Multimedia]]
 [[Category:Newbie]]
+[[Category:Desktop Environments]]
+[[Category:Window Managers]]