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

Window Managers

See also: Window Managers Category

Stacking (floating) window managers

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)

See Also

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