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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-{{Tip|Be sure to add your user to <code>input</code> and <code>video</code> groups.}}
+'''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 ==
+See also: [[:Category:Desktop Environments|Desktop Environments Category]]
-'''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:
+* [[Xfce]]
+* [[LXQt]]
+* [[KDE|KDE Plasma]]
+* [[GNOME]]
+* [[MATE]]
-== Desktop environments ==
+== Window Managers ==
-# [[Xfce]]
+See also: [[:Category:Window Managers|Window Managers Category]]
-# [[LXQt]]
-# [[KDE|KDE Plasma]]
-# [[Gnome]]
-# [[MATE]]
-==  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacking_window_manager Stacking (floating) window managers] ==
+===  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacking_window_manager Stacking (floating) window managers] ===
 * X11:
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 * Wayland:
-** [[Weston]]
+** Weston
 ** [[LabWC]]
 ** [[Wayfire]]
-== [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager Tiling (dynamic) window managers] ==
+=== [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager Tiling (dynamic) window managers] ===
 * X11:
-** Bspwm
+** bspwm
-** Herbstluftwm
+** herbstluftwm
-** [[Dwm]]
+** [[twm]]
+** [[dwm]]
 ** [[I3wm|i3]]
 ** [[AwesomeWM|Awesome Window Manager]]
-** Ratpoison (Available in Edge Branch)
+** Ratpoison (Available in Edge branch under the testing repository)
-** spectrwm (Available in Edge Branch)
+** spectrwm (Available in Edge Branch under the testing repository)
-** Qtile (Available in Edge Branch)
+** Qtile (Available in Edge Branch under the testing repository)
 * Wayland:
-** [[ Sway ]]
+** [[Sway]]
 ** [[River]]
-** Cagebreak (Available in Edge Branch)
+** Cagebreak
-** dwl (Available in Edge Branch)
+** dwl (Available in Edge Branch under the testing repository)
-** Qtile (Available in Edge Branch)
+** Qtile (Available in Edge Branch under the testing repository)
-== Other Window Managers ==
+=== Other Window Managers ===
 * Wayland
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 == See Also ==
 * [[Installation]]
-* [[Installation#Post-Install|Post Install]]
+* [[Installation#Post-Installation|Post Installation]]
+* [[Seat_manager#Input_and_video_groups|Input and video groups]]
 * [[Fonts]]
+* [[Wayland]]
+* [[:Category:Display Managers]]
+* [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Desktop_environment Desktop environment - Archwiki]
+* [https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Desktop_environment Desktop environment - Gentoo Wiki]
 [[Category:Desktop]]
 [[Category:Newbie]]