Alpine Linux IceWM

setup-alpine

setup-xorg-base

su

apk update

apk upgrade

apk add icewm nano geany xterm picom thunar

apk add icewm-themes

apk add volumeicon-alsa volumeicon

apk add pulseaudio pulseaudio-alsa alsa-utils pavucontrol

rc-update add pulseaudio

For root user use su command!

exit

Please login as user for instance joe:

nano ~/.xinitrc

#!/bin/sh

icewmbg &

volumeicon &

picom &

pulseaudio --start

exec icewm-session

nano ~/.icewm/preferences

DesktopBackgroundImage="/home/joe/Downloads/sumaa.JPG"

DesktopBackgroundScaled=1

Please use startx command to start desktop!

IceWM on Alpine Linux take only 90MB RAM Idle usage

i3wm on Alpine Linux take more than 130MB RAM Idle usage

PS.

Additional Audio Settings:

nano /etc/conf.d/pulseaudio

PULSEAUDIO_SHOULD_NOT_GO_SYSTEMWIDE=1

If you want icons on desktop, please use pcmanfm:

apk add pcmanfm

add this to ~/.xinitrc

pcmanfm --desktop &

You need to select background image again from pcmanfm if you want to see your background wallpaper again!

You can use thunar to copy desktop shortcut icons from /usr/share/applications to ~/Desktop.

You have to restart the system for the changes to take place.

Note: pcmanf has two roles, one is to display the icons located in the Desktop folder, and the other is to display the background wallpaper.

Desktop Preferences in IceWM to set desktop wallpaper background picture: