Desktop environments and Window managers
Alpine Linux has no official desktop. Older versions used Xfce, but now all GUI and graphical interfaces are optional. 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
Window Managers
See also: Window Managers Category
Stacking (floating) window managers
- X11:
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:
Other Window Managers
- Wayland
- Cage - Wayland Compositor for running single app on fullscreen mode (kiosk)