Desktop environments and Window managers

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

Alpine is not a graphics-focused system, however there are several complete desktops packages available for installation:

1. XFCE Setup
2. LXDE
3. Alpine Newbies Openbox Window Manager
4. KDE
5. Gnome

Community Contributions

There are some contributions that will periodically be complete desktops available using the Community Repository Packages, like the MATE Desktop environment; others need Wayland, causing some compatibility problems:

1. MATE
2. Awesome Window Manager

Upstream and external ones

All of the original upstream desktops can be installed using the traditional Unix-like method of downloading and compiling them:

1. Dwm
2. Alpine LXQT Desktop Environment

Desktop emulation and gaming

Alpine is capable of providing a good platform to play games and enjoy:

• Gaming on Alpine
• Alpine games packages and options
• Alpine emulators packages and options
• Alpine games from upstreams sources
• Alpine emulators from upstreams sources
• Steam

Tutorial series

Previous required	What's next to read
Alpine newbie apk packages	Alpine Newbies: Xorg and Openbox

See Also

• Fonts configuration and settings in alpine
• Alpine newbie
• Alpine newbie install manual
• Alpine newbie apk packages
• Alpine newbie developer
• Alpine newbie lammers