Desktop environments and Window managers

Tip: Be sure to add your user to input and video groups.

Alpine Linux has no official desktop. Older versions used Xfce, but now, all GUI and graphical interfaces are optional. many are available and is attempted to be listed below:

Desktop environments

1. Xfce
2. LXQt
3. KDE Plasma
4. Gnome
5. MATE

Stacking (floating) window managers

• X11:
  • Openbox

• Wayland:
  • Weston
  • LabWC
  • Wayfire

Tiling (dynamic) window managers

• X11:
  • Bspwm
  • Herbstluftwm
  • Dwm
  • i3
  • Awesome Window Manager
  • Ratpoison (Available in Edge Branch)
  • spectrwm (Available in Edge Branch)
  • Qtile (Available in Edge Branch)

• Wayland:
  • Sway
  • River
  • Cagebreak (Available in Edge Branch)
  • dwl (Available in Edge Branch)
  • Qtile (Available in Edge Branch)

Other Window Managers

• Wayland
  • Cage - Wayland Compositor for running single app on fullscreen mode (kiosk)

See Also

• Installation
• Post Install
• Alpine newbie
• Fonts