Desktop environments and Window managers
The desktop environment in Alpine has two main flavors: One supported officially by the Alpine desktop team and one by the community. The official desktops for Alpine are Xfce4 and LXDE and the community contributed desktops are Mate, AWM and the bigger Gnome
Please, if you find something not easy to understand about the integration of the variety of programs, take in consideration further reading till the end of this page to understand important notes about Behavior of Desktop Environments in Linux
So you can choose from those options or follow the next suggested Alpine Newbies: Xorg and Openbox page.
Alpine Desktops: Official Desktop
There's two official supported desktops, XFCE Desktop Environment and LXDE Desktop, that last make also available the Openbox Window Manager.
- Alpine Newbies XFCE Desktop Environment
- Alpine Newbies LXDE Desktop Environment
- Alpine Newbies Openbox Window Manager
Alpine Desktops: Community Contributions
There's some contributions desktop available using the Community Repository Packages like the MATE Desktop environment due some others need Wayland that has some compatibility problems:
Alpine Desktops: Upstream and external ones
All of the original upstream desktops can be installed by the traditional Unix-like method by downloading and compiling it:
Alpine Desktops: Multimedia
After having your preferred desktop you can also an improvement to your desktop with:
- Alpine multimedia for users (Audio and video multimedia related software and setup)
- Alpine multimedia for editing and amateurs (Amateur related such editing and converting tools)
Alpine Desktops: emulation and gamming
Alpine is capable of providing a good platform to play games and enjoy:
- Alpine games packages and options
- Alpine emulators packages and options
- Alpine games from upstreams sources
- Alpine emulators from upstreams sources
Tutorial series
| Previous required | What's next to read |
|---|---|
| Alpine newbie apk packages | Alpine Newbies: Xorg and Openbox |