Desktop environments and Window managers

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

See also: Desktop Environments Category

• Xfce
• LXQt
• KDE Plasma
• GNOME
• MATE

Window Managers

See also: Window Managers Category

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)

See Also

• Installation
• Post Installation
• Input and video groups
• Fonts
• Wayland
• Category:Display Managers
• Desktop environment - Archwiki
• Desktop environment - Gentoo Wiki