Available Apps and Desktops¶

Every image in this catalog is built on the same Selkies baseimage, so everything in this guide, the ports, the environment variables, the GPU flags, the web client, applies to all of them identically. Swap the image name and you are done.

Webtop: full desktops¶

Webtop ships complete desktop environments as tags of lscr.io/linuxserver/webtop. One branch per flavor, the tag is <distro>-<desktop>:

How to read the matrix:

• Wayland Support means the flavor can run the Wayland stack. XFCE flavors marked this way carry experimental XFCE Wayland support, and the i3 flavors run Sway when in Wayland mode.
• Wayland Only flavors cannot use X11 at all. All KDE images run in Wayland mode by default.
• Unmarked flavors run the X11 stack. Both stacks encode with zero copy on a GPU and share the same CPU pipeline without one, so pick the flavor by the desktop you want rather than by the display server.

docker run -d \
  --name=webtop \
  --shm-size=1gb \
  -p 3001:3001 \
  -v /path/to/config:/config \
  lscr.io/linuxserver/webtop:ubuntu-kde

Notes:

• The KDE flavors are the flagship experience, running KDE Plasma natively on Wayland with a nested KWin compositor. ubuntu-kde reflects the current state of the project best and is the reference flavor used throughout these docs.
• Nvidia GPU support is not available on Alpine based images. GPU users should pick Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, or Arch flavors.

Single application images¶

More than one hundred applications are packaged as dedicated images, each running the app under the lightweight labwc compositor so it feels like a native web app. All follow the pattern lscr.io/linuxserver/<name>:

The catalog includes applications across a wide range of categories, including:

• Web browsers and internet tools
• Communication and messaging clients
• Development tools and IDEs
• Creative, graphics, audio, and video applications
• Office, productivity, and note-taking software
• CAD, engineering, and 3D printing tools
• Gaming, emulation, and game launchers
• File management, remote access, system utilities, and other desktop applications

Each app has its own GitHub repository at github.com/linuxserver/docker-<name> with a README covering any app specific options (for example CHROME_CLI on the Chromium image to pass command line flags to the browser).

The machine readable list that powers the SealSkin app store lives at sealskin.app/apps.js, and the SealSkin apps registry with full launch metadata is documented on the SealSkin Apps Registry page.

Which should I pick?¶

• You want one app in a browser tab (a remote browser, a media tool, an IDE): use the dedicated app image. Lower memory, instant focus on the app, kiosk friendly.
• You want one app but occasionally need a file manager or second window: use the app image and set -e SELKIES_DESKTOP=true for the minimal Selkies Desktop shell.
• You want a real desktop: Webtop. Pick ubuntu-kde or debian-kde if in doubt, or an XFCE or MATE flavor for lower resource usage.
• You want many apps for many users, launched on demand: run SealSkin and let it orchestrate all of the above.