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 i3, Sway, Openbox and awesome.

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Cage is a kiosk compositor for Wayland. A kiosk is a window manager (in the X11 world) or compositor (in the Wayland world)...

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Cage: the Wayland kiosk alternatives page was last updated May 11, 2024
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    KWin is a window manager for the X Window System, and is in the process of becoming a Wayland compositor. It is an integral part, and the default window manager of the Plasma Workspaces, but it can also be used on its own or with other desktop environments.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    KWin Features

    1.  Extensible window manager

    KWin VS Cage: the Wayland kiosk

     
  2. herbstluftwm icon
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    herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib.

    63 herbstluftwm alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    herbstluftwm Features

    1.  X server
    2.  Tiling Window Manager

    herbstluftwm VS Cage: the Wayland kiosk

     
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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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Wayland
    • Linux

    miracle-wm Features

    1.  Wayland Support
    2.  Tiling
    3.  Tiling Window Manager

    miracle-wm VS Cage: the Wayland kiosk

     
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    An openbox clone on Wayland (WIP).

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Openbox
    • Wayland

    Waybox Features

    1.  Wayland Support

    Waybox VS Cage: the Wayland kiosk

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

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Properties

    1.  Customizable

    Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Tiling
    3.  Workspaces
    4.  Feed Reader

    bug.n VS Cage: the Wayland kiosk

     
  6. 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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE
    • Wayland

    Polonium Features

    1.  No registration required
    2.  Wayland Support
    3.  Tiling Window Manager
    4.  Tiling
    5.  KDE

    Polonium VS Cage: the Wayland kiosk

     
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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:

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland

    dwl Features

    1.  Compositor
    2.  Tiling

    dwl VS Cage: the Wayland kiosk

     
  8. 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...

    64 Ratpoison alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • X11

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  No registration required
    2.  Ad-free
    3.  No Tracking
    4.  Tiling
    5.  X server
    6.  Tiling Window Manager

    Ratpoison VS Cage: the Wayland kiosk

     
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    Automatic tiling window manager for Windows 10.

    91 Amethyst Windows alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Discontinued

    The latest version is from January 2023, and the GitHub repository is archived.

    Amethyst Windows Features

    1.  Window organizer
    2.  Tiling Window Manager
    3.  Tiling

    Amethyst Windows VS Cage: the Wayland kiosk

     
  10. hikari icon
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    hikari [ja. Light] is a stacking Wayland compositor which is actively developed on FreeBSD but also supports Linux.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    hikari Features

    1.  Tiling Window Manager

    hikari VS Cage: the Wayland kiosk

     
  11. i3-gaps icon
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    i3-gaps is a fork of i3wm, a tiling window manager for X11. It is kept up to date with upstream, adding a few additional features such as gaps between windows.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Discontinued

    i3-gaps has been merged into i3 icon i3.

    i3-gaps Features

    1.  Tiling Window Manager

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    PyTyle is an extremely versatile and extensible tiling manager that is meant to be used on top of EWMH window managers. Its feature set was modeled after the basic tiling features of XMonad.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    PyTyle Features

    1.  Window organizer
    2.  Tiling Window Manager

    PyTyle VS Cage: the Wayland kiosk

     
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