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The Alpine Linux script for quickly setting up a desktop is:

# setup-desktop

On running the above command, you will be prompted to select a desktop environment.

Which desktop environment? ('gnome', 'plasma', 'xfce', 'mate', 'sway', 'lxqt' or 'none') [none]

Once you have chosen a desktop environment, this script installs the chosen desktop along with necessary packages, firefox browser and adds necessary services to run on startup. You can reboot when complete, and the system will boot into a graphical login screen with the chosen desktop environment, except for sway. To view the packages installed by the script: $ cat /usr/sbin/setup-desktop

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-{{Tip|Before installing a desktop, you may want to create a non-privileged [[Setting_up_a_new_user#Creating_a_new_user|user account]] for security reasons.}}
+The Alpine Linux script for quickly [[Alpine_setup_scripts#setup-desktop|setting up a desktop]] is:{{Cmd|# setup-desktop}}
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-{{Note|To Install any desktop environment, [[Repositories#Managing_repositories|enable]] the <code>community</code> repository.  [[Alpine_setup_scripts#setup-desktop|Setup-desktop]] script referred in [[Setup-desktop#Quickstart_Installation|Quickstart Installation]] automatically does this for you. }}
-== Quickstart Installation ==
+On running the above command, you will be prompted to select a desktop environment.{{Cmd|Which desktop environment? ('gnome', 'plasma', 'xfce', 'mate', 'sway', 'lxqt' or 'none') [none]}}
-The Alpine Linux script for setting up any desktop quickly is [[Alpine_setup_scripts#setup-desktop|setup-desktop]]. Desktop environements can be installed with this script, which is part of the standard Alpine Linux installation package {{pkg|alpine-conf|repo=main}}.
+Once you have chosen a desktop environment, this script installs the chosen desktop along with necessary packages, {{pkg|firefox|repo=community}} browser and adds necessary services to run on startup. You can reboot when complete, and the system will boot into a graphical login screen with the chosen desktop environment, except for [[Sway#Setup-desktop|sway]]. To view the packages installed by the script: {{Codeline|$ cat /usr/sbin/setup-desktop}}
-{{Cmd|# setup-desktop}}
-On running the above command, you will be prompted to select a desktop environment.
-{{Cmd|Which desktop environment? ('gnome', 'plasma', 'xfce', 'mate', 'sway' or 'none') [none]}}
-Once you have chosen a desktop environment, this script installs the chosen desktop along with all the necessary packages, {{pkg|firefox|repo=community}} browser and adds the necessary services to run on startup. You can reboot when complete and the system will boot into a graphical login screen with the desktop environment. Depending on the desktop chosen, the script also activates the necessary services like dbus, elogind, login manager etc..
-To view all the packages that are installed by the script for the chosen desktop you can issue the below command:
-{{Cmd|# cat /sbin/setup-desktop}}