Cagebreak provides a ratpoison-inspired, cage-based, tiling Wayland compositor.
Cagebreak was built to suit the needs of its creators. This outlines how we intended some parts of cagebreak and might ease learning how to use cagebreak a little bit. Please note that this does not replace the man pages or the FAQ. Also, this is not intended as a guide on how cagebreak must be used but as a source of inspiration and explanation for certain particularities.
- Cagebreak is keyboard-based. Everything regarding cagebreak can be done through the keyboard and it is our view that it should be. This does not mean that pointers, touchpads and such are not available for the few applications that do require them.
- Cagebreak is a tiling compositor. Every view takes up as much screen space as possible. We believe this is useful, as only very few programs are typically necessary to complete a task. To manage multiple tasks concurrently, we use workspaces.
- Each task deserves its own workspace. Any given task (the sort of thing you might find in your calendar or on your todo list) probably requires very few views and ideally, these take up as much of the screen as possible.
