Alpine Suck

Lightweight Desktop installer for Alpine Linux based on the suckless philosophy.

Screenshot of dwm running on Alpine Linux

Includes my own custom set of suckless tools (dwm, slstatus, dmenu, etc.). Ships with my personal vim and kitty configs.

What You Get

The Open Suck installer gives you the absolute barebones desktop experience:

dwm for window management
kitty for default terminal emulator
lf for your file browser
firefox as your core web browser
aerc for your terminal-based mail client
slock for screen locking
scrot/slop for simple screenshot utilities
feh for your image/file viewing
dunst for notifications

Downloading

Download the latest Alpine image
Run setup-alpine
Run setup-xorg-base
Enable community/edge/testing repos
Install git, vim & doas (doas is better than sudo!)
Edit doas permissions (/etc/doas.conf):

permit nopass :wheel

After finishing the above, create a user:

adduser -g "Real Name" username

Then add them to all required groups (wheel,users,audio,video,cdrom,input,tty):

adduser username wheel

Then logout of root user.

Login as your newly created user and run the following:

git clone https://git.btxx.org/alpine-suck

cd alpine-suck

Installing

Install dependencies
Compile and install suckless software

TLDR

Warning: Change the $ALPINE_USER variable inside install-dependencies.sh to match that of your current user.

$ALPINE_USER="bt"

Then continue...

cd alpine-suck # CD into this repository
doas sh ./install-dependencies.sh # Install alpine packages

Give that some time. Once it is complete, run install.sh to build the suckless programs:

doas sh ./install.sh # Build & install everything

Reboot the machine. Log in as your main user. Run:

startx

Possible Tweaks / Troubleshooting

You might need to check /proc/asound/cards to see which sound cards are available to your system. Then, if needed, you should create a /etc/asound.conf file with the following inside (where the "1" is your desired card number):

defaults.pcm.card 1
defaults.ctl.card 1

This will take on the next reboot of the machine.