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 Jun 9, 2025
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  1. Bluetile icon

    Bluetile

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    Bluetile is a tiling window manager for Linux, designed to integrate with the GNOME desktop environment. It provides both a traditional, stacking layout mode as well as tiling layouts where windows are arranged to use the entire screen without overlapping.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Bluetile screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    The last commit on this software is ten years ago and the GNOME desktop has moved on. Notably, it is now difficult to replace the default window manager in GNOME.

    Bluetile Features

    1.  Snap windows

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    pekwm

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    pekwm is a window manager that once up on a time was based on the aewm++ window manager, but it has evolved enough that it no longer resembles aewm++ at all. It has a much expanded feature-set, including window grouping (similar to ion, pwm, or fluxbox), autoproperties...

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    pekwm screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    pekwm VS Cage: the Wayland kiosk

     
  4. Lumina Desktop Environment icon

    Lumina Desktop Environment

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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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • PC-BSD

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    flwm

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    The Fast Light Window Manager is a small stacking FLTK-based window manager written in C++ and available for redistribution under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    flwm screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Minimalistic

    Features

    1.  X server

    flwm VS Cage: the Wayland kiosk

     
  6. Phoenix icon

    Phoenix

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    Phoenix is a lightweight OS X window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript. You can also easily use languages which compile to JavaScript such as CoffeeScript. Phoenix aims for efficiency and a very small footprint.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Phoenix screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

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    Sawfish

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    Sawfish is an extensible window manager using a Lisp-based scripting language. Its policy is very minimal compared to most window managers. Its aim is simply to manage windows in the most flexible and attractive manner possible.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Sawfish screenshot 1

    Sawfish Features

    1.  Support for scripting

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  9. Blackbox WM

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    Blackbox is an original window manager, sharing no code with any others. It's designed to be fairly small and minimal, making it particularly suited to less powerful computers. It doesn't support images, other than generated gradients, but it does support multiple...

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Blackbox WM screenshot 1

    Blackbox WM VS Cage: the Wayland kiosk

     

  10. Vivarium

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    A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots, with desktop semantics inspired by xmonad.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Vivarium screenshot 1

    Vivarium Features

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

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    Gnome Mutter

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    Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
    • Wayland

    Gnome Mutter Features

    1.  Wayland Support

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    WMFS²

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    WMFS² is a lightweight and highly configurable tiling window manager for X written in C. WMFS² is a free software distributed under the BSD license. It can be driven from keyboard or mouse and its configuration stands in one text file, easily understandable.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Source: zachsnyder.deviantart.com/art/My-WMFS-9-30-2011-260849127
    Discontinued

    The last update on the GitHub repo (https://github.com/xorg62/wmfs) was on August 14th, 2013. The official website is no longer accessible, but has been archived by Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20141218125810/http://wmfs.info/

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Minimalistic

    Features

    1.  Tiling

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  13. Mahogany

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    Mahogany is a tiling window manager for Wayland modeled after StumpWM. While it is not a drop-in replacement for StumpWM, StumpWM users should be very comfortable with Mahogany. Its planned features are:

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland

    Mahogany Features

    1.  Wayland Support

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  14. Gamescope

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    Valve's wayland compositor aimed at mainly running games.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  No registration required
    2.  Ad-free
    3.  Wayland Support

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