Desktop environments and Window managers: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 13:47, 29 December 2024

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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 === [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager Tiling window managers] ===
-(also known as '''Dynamic window maanagers''')
+(also known as '''Dynamic window managers''')
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 ** {{Pkg|bspwm|arch=}}