Desktop environments and Window managers: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 21:31, 6 March 2024

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

Desktop Environments

Window Managers

Stacking (floating) window managers

X11:
- Openbox

Wayland:
- Weston
- LabWC
- Wayfire

Tiling (dynamic) window managers

X11:
- bspwm
- herbstluftwm
- twm
- dwm
- i3
- Awesome Window Manager
- Ratpoison (Available in Edge branch under the testing repository)
- spectrwm (Available in Edge Branch under the testing repository)
- 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)

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-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 Setup|Gnome]]
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-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 [[Alpine_newbie_desktops#Behavior_of_Desktop_Environments_in_Linux|Behavior of Desktop Environments in Linux]]
+'''Alpine Linux''' has no official desktop. Older versions used Xfce, but now all GUI and graphical interfaces are optional. many are available and are attempted to be listed below:
-'''So you can choose from those options or follow the next suggested [[Alpine Newbies Openbox Window Manager|Alpine Newbies: Xorg and Openbox]]''' page.
+== Desktop Environments ==
-= Alpine Desktops: Official Desktop =
+See also: [[:Category:Desktop Environments|Desktop Environments Category]]
-There's two official supported desktops, [[Alpine Newbies XFCE Desktop Environment|XFCE Desktop Environment]] and [[Alpine Newbies LXDE Desktop Environment|LXDE Desktop]], that last make also available the [[Alpine Newbies Openbox Window Manager|Openbox Window Manager]].
+* [[Xfce]]
+* [[LXQt]]
+* [[KDE|KDE Plasma]]
+* [[GNOME]]
+* [[MATE]]
-# [[Alpine Newbies XFCE Desktop Environment]]
+== Window Managers ==
-# [[Alpine Newbies LXDE Desktop Environment]]
-# [[Alpine Newbies Openbox Window Manager]]
-= Alpine Desktops: Community Contributions =
+See also: [[:Category:Window Managers|Window Managers Category]]
-There's some contributions desktop available using the Community Repository Packages like the [Alpine Newbies MATE Desktop Environment|MATE Desktop environment]] due some others need Wayland that has some compatibility problems:
+===  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacking_window_manager Stacking (floating) window managers] ===
-# [[Alpine Newbies MATE Desktop Environment]]
+* X11:
-# [[Awesome(wm)_Setup|Awesome Window Manager]]
+** [[Openbox]]
-= Alpine Desktops: Upstream and external ones =
+* Wayland:
+** Weston
+** [[LabWC]]
+** [[Wayfire]]
-All of the original upstream desktops can be installed by the traditional Unix-like method by downloading and compiling it:
+=== [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager Tiling (dynamic) window managers] ===
-# [[Dwm|Dynamic Window Manager for X]]
+* X11:
-# [[Alpine LXQT Desktop Environment]]
+** bspwm
+** herbstluftwm
+** [[twm]]
+** [[dwm]]
+** [[I3wm|i3]]
+** [[AwesomeWM|Awesome Window Manager]]
+** Ratpoison (Available in Edge branch under the testing repository)
+** spectrwm (Available in Edge Branch under the testing repository)
+** Qtile (Available in Edge Branch under the testing repository)
-= Alpine Desktops: Multimedia =
+* Wayland:
+** [[Sway]]
+** [[River]]
+** Cagebreak
+** dwl (Available in Edge Branch under the testing repository)
+** Qtile (Available in Edge Branch under the testing repository)
-After having your preferred desktop you can also an improvement to your desktop with:
+=== Other Window Managers ===
-* [[Alpine multimedia for users]] (Audio and video multimedia related software and setup)
+* Wayland
-* [[Alpine multimedia for editing and amateurs]] (Amateur related such editing and converting tools)
+** Cage - Wayland Compositor for running single app on fullscreen mode (kiosk)
-= Alpine Desktops: emulation and gamming =
+== See Also ==
+* [[Installation]]
-Alpine is capable of providing a good platform to play games and enjoy:
+* [[Installation#Post-Installation|Post Installation]]
+* [[Seat_manager#Input_and_video_groups|Input and video groups]]
-* [[Alpine games packages and options]]
+* [[Fonts]]
-* [[Alpine emulators packages and options]]
+* [[Wayland]]
-* [[Alpine games from upstreams sources]]
+* [[:Category:Display Managers]]
-* [[Alpine emulators from upstreams sources]]
+* [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Desktop_environment Desktop environment - Archwiki]
+* [https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Desktop_environment Desktop environment - Gentoo Wiki]
-= Tutorial series =
-{| class="wikitable"
-|-
-! Previous required  !! What's next to read
-|-
-| [[Alpine newbie apk packages]] || [[Alpine Newbies Openbox Window Manager|Alpine Newbies: Xorg and Openbox]]
-|}
-= See Also =
-# [[Alpine newbie]]
-# [[Alpine newbie install manual]]
-# [[Alpine newbie apk packages]]
-# [[Alpine newbie desktops]]
-# [[Alpine newbie developer]]
-# [[Alpine newbie lammers]]
 [[Category:Desktop]]
-[[Category:Multimedia]]
+[[Category:Newbie]]