Desktop environments and Window managers: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 08:53, 9 January 2025

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 managers)

X11:
- Openbox
- Fluxbox

Wayland:
- Weston
- LabWC
- wayfire

Tiling window managers

(also known as Dynamic window managers)

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 Xfce, but now all GUI and graphical interfaces are optional. many are available and are attempted to be listed below:
+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.
+This page lists only the window managers and desktop environments for which packages are available in Alpine Linux. Do not add unsupported software here.
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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 [[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)]].
 == Desktop Environments ==
-See also: [[:Category:Desktop Environments|Desktop Environments Category]]
 * [[Xfce]]
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 == Window Managers ==
-See also: [[:Category:Window Managers|Window Managers Category]]
+===  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacking_window_manager Stacking window managers] ===
+(also known as '''floating window managers''')
-===  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacking_window_manager Stacking (floating) window managers] ===
 * X11:
 ** [[Openbox]]
+** [[Fluxbox]]
 * Wayland:
-** Weston
+** [[Weston]]
 ** [[LabWC]]
-** [[Wayfire]]
+** {{Pkg|wayfire|arch=}}
-=== [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager Tiling (dynamic) window managers] ===
+=== [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager Tiling window managers] ===
+(also known as '''Dynamic window managers''')
 * X11:
-** bspwm
+** {{Pkg|bspwm|arch=}}
-** herbstluftwm
+** {{Pkg|herbstluftwm|arch=}}
 ** [[twm]]
 ** [[dwm]]
 ** [[I3wm|i3]]
-** [[AwesomeWM|Awesome Window Manager]]
+** [[AwesomeWM|Awesome]]
-** Ratpoison (Available in Edge branch under the testing repository)
+** {{Pkg|ratpoison|arch=}}
-** spectrwm (Available in Edge Branch under the testing repository)
+** {{Pkg|spectrwm |arch=}}
-** Qtile (Available in Edge Branch under the testing repository)
+** {{Pkg|qtile |arch=}}
 * Wayland:
 ** [[Sway]]
 ** [[River]]
-** Cagebreak
+** {{Pkg|cagebreak|arch=}}
-** dwl (Available in Edge Branch under the testing repository)
+** {{Pkg|dwl|arch=}}
-** Qtile (Available in Edge Branch under the testing repository)
+** [[Hyprland]]
 === Other Window Managers ===
 * Wayland
-** Cage - Wayland Compositor for running single app on fullscreen mode (kiosk)
+** {{Pkg|cage |arch=}} ('''kiosk''' mode)
-== See Also ==
+== See also ==
-* [[Installation]]
 * [[Installation#Post-Installation|Post Installation]]
-* [[Seat_manager#Input_and_video_groups|Input and video groups]]
-* [[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]
 [[Category:Desktop]]
-[[Category:Newbie]]
+[[Category:Desktop Environments]]
+[[Category:Window Managers]]
+[[Category:Compositor]]