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! WM Name !! Protocol!! Style !! Toolkit!!class="unsortable"|Inspiration  
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| {{Pkg|2bwm|arch=}} || X11 || Stacking || C/Roff
|| [https://www.hack.org/~mc/hacks/mcwm mcwm]
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| [[AwesomeWM|Awesome]] ||X11  || Tiling || Lua ||
| [[AwesomeWM|Awesome]] ||X11  || Tiling || Lua ||
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| {{Pkg|cagebreak|arch=}} || Wayland || Tiling ||C/wlroots || ratpoison and cage
| {{Pkg|cagebreak|arch=}} || Wayland || Tiling ||C/wlroots || ratpoison and cage
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| {{Pkg|compiz|arch=}} || X11 || Compositing || C++/C/Python ||
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| {{Pkg|cwm|arch=}} || X11 || Stacking || C ||
| {{Pkg|cwm|arch=}} || X11 || Stacking || C ||
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| [[Fluxbox]] || X11 || Stacking || C++ ||Blackbox
| [[Fluxbox]] || X11 || Stacking || C++ ||Blackbox
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| {{Pkg|flwm|arch=}} || X11 || Stacking || C++/FLTK || [https://all-day-breakfast.com/wm2/ wm2]
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| {{Pkg|gamescope|arch=}} || X11/Wayland || Compositing || C++/C/Lua ||
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| {{Pkg|goomwwm||-
| {{Pkg|icewm|arch=}} || X11 || Stacking || C++/C/M4 ||
arch=}}  || X11 || Stacking || C/Roff ||
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| {{Pkg|herbstluftwm|arch=}} || X11 || Tiling || C++ ||
| {{Pkg|herbstluftwm|arch=}} || X11 || Tiling || C++ ||
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| [[I3wm|i3]] || X11 || Tiling || C ||
| [[I3wm|i3]] || X11 || Tiling || C ||
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| {{Pkg|icewm|arch=}} || X11 || Stacking || C++/C/M4 ||
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| {{Pkg|jwm|arch=}} || X11 || Stacking || C ||
| {{Pkg|jwm|arch=}} || X11 || Stacking || C ||
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| [[LabWC]] || Wayland || Stacking || C/wlroots||[[Openbox]]
| [[LabWC]] || Wayland || Stacking || C/wlroots||[[Openbox]]
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| {{Pkg|marco|arch=}} || X11 || Stacking || C || {{Pkg|metacity|arch=}}
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| {{Pkg|metacity|arch=kwin}} || X11 || Compositing || C ||
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| {{Pkg|mutter|arch=}} || X11/Wayland || Compositing || C ||
| {{Pkg|mutter|arch=}} || X11/Wayland || Compositing || C ||
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| [[Openbox]] || X11 || Stacking || C ||
| [[Openbox]] || X11 || Stacking || C ||
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| {{Pkg|pekwm|arch=}} || X11 || Stacking || C++/CMake/Perl/C || [http://sapphire.sourceforge.net/ aewm++]
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| [[Qtile]] || Both || Tiling || Python ||
| [[Qtile]] || Both || Tiling || Python ||
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| [[Sway]] || Wayland || Tiling || C/wlroots || [[I3wm|i3]]
| [[Sway]] || Wayland || Tiling || C/wlroots || [[I3wm|i3]]
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| {{Pkg|sxmo-dwm|arch=}} || X11 || Tiling || C || {{Pkg|dwm|arch=}}
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| [[twm]] || X11 || Tiling || C ||
| [[twm]] || X11 || Tiling || C ||
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| [[Weston]] || Wayland || Stacking ||  C ||
| [[Weston]] || Wayland || Stacking ||  C ||
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| {{Pkg|windowmaker|arch=}} || X11 || Stacking || C/Shell/M4/Perl/Makefile/Emacs Lisp/other || NeXTSTEP
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| {{Pkg|xfwm4|arch=}} || X11 || Compositing || C/Makefile/Meson/other ||
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Revision as of 20:48, 1 July 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.

Tip: For servers consider using Alpine Configuration Framework(ACF) for security reasons.

Desktop environments

Desktop environment (DE) is made of a bundle of programs that share a common graphical user interface (GUI), sometimes described as a graphical shell. A desktop environment typically consists of icons, windows, toolbars, folders, wallpapers desktop widgets and might also provide drag and drop.

Window managers

A window manager is software that controls the placement and appearance of windows within a windowing system in a graphical user interface. In case of Wayland, these are called compositors because they additionally perform the task of a compositing window manager.

Almost all components of a desktop needs to be added manually by the user. A stacking a.k.a. floating or tiling a.k.a. dynamic layout is commonly used for window management.

WM Name Protocol Style Toolkit Inspiration
2bwm X11 Stacking C/Roff mcwm
Awesome X11 Tiling Lua
berry X11 Stacking C
bspwm X11 Tiling C
cage Wayland Kiosk C/wlroots ratpoison
cagebreak Wayland Tiling C/wlroots ratpoison and cage
compiz X11 Compositing C++/C/Python
cwm X11 Stacking C
dwl Wayland Tiling C/wlroots dwm
dwm X11 Tiling C
Fluxbox X11 Stacking C++ Blackbox
flwm X11 Stacking C++/FLTK wm2
gamescope X11/Wayland Compositing C++/C/Lua
goomwwm X11 Stacking C/Roff
herbstluftwm X11 Tiling C++
hikari Wayland Stacking C/wlroots/pango cwm
Hyprland Wayland Tiling C++
i3 X11 Tiling C
icewm X11 Stacking C++/C/M4
jwm X11 Stacking C
kwin X11/Wayland Compositing C++
LabWC Wayland Stacking C/wlroots Openbox
marco X11 Stacking C metacity
metacity X11 Compositing C
mutter X11/Wayland Compositing C
mwm X11 Stacking C
niri Wayland Tiling Rust/GLSL/other PaperWM
Openbox X11 Stacking C
pekwm X11 Stacking C++/CMake/Perl/C aewm++
Qtile Both Tiling Python
ratpoison X11 Kiosk C
River Wayland Tiling Zig dwm and xmonad
spectrwm X11 Tiling C xmonad and dwm
Sway Wayland Tiling C/wlroots i3
sxmo-dwm X11 Tiling C dwm
twm X11 Tiling C
wayfire Wayland Stacking C++/wlroots Compiz
Weston Wayland Stacking C
windowmaker X11 Stacking C/Shell/M4/Perl/Makefile/Emacs Lisp/other NeXTSTEP
xfwm4 X11 Compositing C/Makefile/Meson/other

See also

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