Desktop environments and Window managers

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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: Desktop Environments Category

• Xfce
• LXQt
• KDE Plasma
• GNOME
• MATE

Window Managers

See also: Window Managers Category

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 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)

See Also

• Installation
• Post Install
• Fonts
• Desktop environment - Archwiki