Setup-desktop
To use Alpine Linux as a Desktop, a desktop environment needs to be installed. The desktops environments that can be installeed in a Quickstart mode currently using Setup-desktop utility are listed.
- Setup your Internet access, if not done already, before you proceed further.
- Create a non-privileged user account for security reasons, if you skipped this step during Installation.
- Enable community repository.
- Install graphics driver for your video hardware.
Setup-desktop script automatically enables the community repository.
Installation using setup-desktop
The Alpine Linux script for setting up a desktop quickly is setup-desktop.
# setup-desktop
On running the above command, you will be prompted to select a desktop environment.
Which desktop environment? ('gnome', 'plasma', 'xfce', 'mate', 'sway', 'lxqt' or 'none') [none]
Once you have chosen a desktop environment, this script installs the chosen desktop along with necessary packages, firefox browser and adds the necessary services to run on startup. You can reboot when complete and the system will boot into a graphical login screen with the desktop environment. Depending on the desktop chosen, the script also activates the necessary services like dbus, elogind, login manager etc..
To view all the packages that are installed by the script for the chosen desktop you can issue the below command:
# cat /usr/sbin/setup-desktop
Information related to all Desktop Managers that are available In Alpine Linux.