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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-'''Alpine Linux has no official desktop.''' Older versions used 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 dependencies.
-== Complete Desktops ==
+<!-- 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.
-Alpine is not a graphics-focused system, however there are several complete desktops packages available for installation:
+This page lists only the window managers and desktop environments for which packages are available in Alpine Linux. Do not add unsupported software here
-# [[XFCE Setup]]
+-->
-# [[Alpine Newbies LXDE Desktop Environment]]
-# [[Alpine Newbies Openbox Window Manager]]
-# [[KDE]]
-# [[Gnome Setup]]
-==  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:
+'''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)]].
-# [[MATE]]
+== Desktop Environments ==
-# [[Awesome(wm)_Setup|Awesome Window Manager]]
-== Upstream and external ones ==
+* [[Xfce]]
+* [[LXQt]]
+* [[KDE|KDE Plasma]]
+* [[GNOME]]
+* [[MATE]]
-All of the original upstream desktops can be installed using the traditional Unix-like method of downloading and compiling them:
+== Window Managers ==
-# [[Dwm|Dynamic Window Manager for X]]
+===  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacking_window_manager Stacking window managers] ===
-# [[Alpine LXQT Desktop Environment]]
+(also known as '''floating window maanagers''')
+* X11:
+** [[Openbox]]
+** [[Fluxbox]]
-== Desktop emulation and gaming ==
+* Wayland:
+** [[Weston]]
+** [[LabWC]]
+**  {{Pkg|wayfire|arch=}}
-Alpine is capable of providing a good platform to play games and enjoy:
+=== [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager Tiling window managers] ===
+(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=}}
-* [[Gaming on Alpine]]
+* Wayland:
-* [[Alpine games packages and options]]
+** [[Sway]]
-* [[Alpine emulators packages and options]]
+** [[River]]
-* [[Alpine games from upstreams sources]]
+** {{Pkg|cagebreak|arch=}}
-* [[Alpine emulators from upstreams sources]]
+** {{Pkg|dwl|arch=}}
-* [[Steam]]
+** [[Hyprland]]
-== Tutorial series ==
+=== Other Window Managers ===
-{| class="wikitable"
+* Wayland
-|-
+** {{Pkg|cage |arch=}} ('''kiosk''' mode)
-! Previous required  !! What's next to read
-|-
-| [[Alpine newbie apk packages]] || [[Alpine Newbies Openbox Window Manager|Alpine Newbies: Xorg and Openbox]]
-|}
 == See Also ==
+* [[:Category:Desktop Environments|Desktop Environments]]
-* [[Fonts|Fonts configuration and settings in alpine]]
+* [[:Category:Window Managers|Window Managers]]
-* [[Alpine newbie]]
+* [[Installation#Post-Installation|Post Installation]]
-* [[Alpine newbie install manual]]
+* [[Seat_manager#Input_and_video_groups|Input and video groups]]
-* [[Alpine newbie apk packages]]
+* [[Fonts]]
-* [[Alpine newbie developer]]
+* [[Wayland]]
-* [[Alpine newbie lammers]]
+* [[Xorg]]
+* [[Display manager]]
+* [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Desktop_environment Desktop environment - Archwiki]
+* [https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Desktop_environment Desktop environment - Gentoo Wiki]
 [[Category:Desktop]]
-[[Category:Multimedia]]
 [[Category:Newbie]]
+[[Category:Desktop Environments]]
+[[Category:Window Managers]]