Desktop environments and Window managers: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 10:48, 12 August 2024

Alpine Linux has no official desktop. Older versions used Xfce, but now all GUI and graphical interfaces are optional. Setup-desktop allows few desktops environments to be installed in Quickstart mode.

All window managers and desktop environments that are available in Alpine Linux are listed in this page.

Desktop Environments

Window Managers

Stacking (floating) window managers

X11:
- Openbox

Wayland:
- Weston
- LabWC
- Wayfire

Tiling (dynamic) window managers

X11:
- bspwm
- herbstluftwm
- twm
- dwm
- i3
- Awesome Window Manager
- Ratpoison
- spectrwm
- Qtile (Available in Edge Branch under the testing repository)

Wayland:
- Sway
- River
- Cagebreak
- dwl (Available in Edge Branch under the testing repository)
- Qtile (Available in Edge Branch under the testing repository)

Other Window Managers

Wayland
- Cage - Wayland Compositor for running single app on fullscreen mode (kiosk)

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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:
+'''Alpine Linux''' has no official desktop. Older versions used Xfce, but now all GUI and graphical interfaces are optional.
+[[Setup-desktop]] allows few desktops environments to be installed in Quickstart mode.
+All window managers and desktop environments that are available in Alpine Linux are listed in this page.
 == Desktop Environments ==