Cage: the Wayland kiosk Alternatives

Cage: the Wayland kiosk is described as 'Cage is a kiosk compositor for Wayland. A kiosk is a window manager (in the X11 world) or compositor (in the Wayland world) that is designed for a user experience wherein user interaction and activities outside the scope of the running application are prevented' and is a wayland compositor in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Cage: the Wayland kiosk for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Wayland, Mac and Windows apps. The best Cage: the Wayland kiosk alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Cage: the Wayland kiosk are niri, i3, Sway and Openbox.

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    bug.n is a tiling window manager add-on for Microsoft Windows. It is written in the scripting language AutoHotkey.

    86 bug.n alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
     
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    Stack Window Manager With Manual Grid Tiling Layout Extended Desktop Area Left Hand Keyboard + Right Hand Mouse.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • GridWM (Grid Window Manager) is the most popular commercial alternative to Cage: the Wayland kiosk.

    • GridWM (Grid Window Manager) is Paid and ProprietaryCage: the Wayland kiosk is Free and Open Source
    • GridWM (Grid Window Manager) is LightweightCage: the Wayland kiosk is not according to our users
  3. LeftWM icon
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    Left is a tiling window manager written in rust for stability and performance. The core of left is designed to do one thing and one thing well. Be a window manager. Because you probably want more than just a black screen LeftWM is built around the concept of theming.

    69 LeftWM alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
  4. herbstluftwm icon
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    herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  5. Miriway icon
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    Miriway is a starting point for creating a Wayland based desktop environment using Mir.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
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    A Wayland compositor based on Mir. It features a tiling window manager at its core, very much in the style of i3 and sway. The intention is to build a compositor that is flashier and more feature-rich than either of those compositors, like swayfx.

    65 miracle-wm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Wayland
    • Linux
     
  7. Ratpoison icon
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    Ratpoison is a simple window manager with no fat library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no rodent dependence. The screen can be split into non-overlapping frames. All windows are kept maximized inside their frames to take full advantage of your...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • X11
     
  8. Polonium icon
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    An autotile manager for Plasma 6. An (unofficial) spiritual successor to Bismuth built on KWin 6. The descendant of autotile.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE
    • Wayland
     
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    dwl is a compact, hackable compositor for Wayland based on wlroots. It is intended to fill the same space in the Wayland world that dwm does in X11, primarily in terms of functionality, and secondarily in terms of philosophy. Like dwm, dwl is:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
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    Lumina is a lightweight, BSD licensed, standards-compliant desktop environment based upon Qt and Fluxbox. It is being developed on PC-BSD, and is being packaged for distribution on the PC-BSD package repository as well.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • PC-BSD
     
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