cagebreak
Cagebreak: A Wayland Tiling Compositor Inspired by Ratpoison (by project-repo)
awesome
awesome window manager (by awesomeWM)
| cagebreak | awesome | |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | 223 | |
| 247 | 6,142 | |
| - | 1.0% | |
| 4.3 | 7.2 | |
| 16 days ago | 10 days ago | |
| C | Lua | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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cagebreak
Posts with mentions or reviews of cagebreak.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-27.
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Here's what your typical Linux system looked like in 2003. We've come so far.
There's also a Wayland WM directly inspired by ratpoison! https://github.com/project-repo/cagebreak
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Actually functional compositors, and querying their protocol capabilities : mirroring screens
That's true for a lot of libraries, you have to maintain the code, I would treat that as a fact of life, It might be worth noting there are some projects designed to provide a high level abstraction over wlroots which might be different: cage -> used by cagebreak phoc -> used by phosh and wayfire -> used by swayfire.
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With rise of wayland, are simpler window managers dying?
cagebreak as far as i can tell is a one man project (it uses cage to provide a high level abstraction over wlroots).
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Writing a Wayland compositor is MUCH harder than it should be
I also remembered cagebreak (wayland window manager). it uses cage (which is defined as a "wayland kiosk" but might also be used as a high level abstraction over wlroots).
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EXWM and Wayland
Anyway, like you I also wanted to see how far I could go on Wayland. After trying out a number of wms I settled on cagebreak which is modeled on ratpoison. It's still in early development but worked well enough for me to give it a semi daily driver status. It works really well with emacs too, without the single-thread issue. I went for a pure Wayland experience (without XWayland as well), so I couldn't some apps I normally use - but I was able to create something quite close to my xorg setup.
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Wayland alternatives
There's cagebreak, wich is inspired by ratpoison. It's different yo hlwm, but it has the same concept of containers, but every container only have the "max" layout
- Cagebreak: A Wayland Tiling Compositor Inspired by Ratpoison
awesome
Posts with mentions or reviews of awesome.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-23.
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Hyprland Crash Course
https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/issues/3132
- Size of clients in the Master area
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Any plans on porting to wayland?
i'm reading this issue and this thread as i'm looking into migrate to wayland, since sooner or later we'll apparently have (i know this won't be very soon, but wayland is more and more mainstream). I know "any update on this?" is very annoying, and that's why i'm not open an issue, but... Any update on this?
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selecting menu options without releasing right click
I guess, it's not supported at the moment or you'll have to do some hacks.. There is this issue (#3777) with the same problem.
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[HELP] Dynamically change menu item title based on client.focus.maximized state
This is the correction in awesome-git: https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/pull/3657/files
- How to replicate this desktop?
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A linux newbie has installed and configured Arch. Minimalist graphical capabilities?
I use the Awesome Window Manager. At it's core, it's a little difficult to figure out. But once you get the hang of assigning hot keys and whatnot, You'll be able to use it more fluently. I use it on all 3 of my machines (two desktops and one laptop). I Love it! I copy my configs from the machine I started it with and put them on the other 2 machines. Works great!
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How to install and setup lightdm and awesomewm?
git clone https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome.git
- awful.keygrabber help
- new to awesome
What are some alternatives?
When comparing cagebreak and awesome you can also consider the following projects:
sway-borders - Fork of sway with some extra features, mainly related to borders.
Hyprland - Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
i3 - A tiling window manager for X11
kiwmi - A fully programmable Wayland Compositor
dunst - Lightweight and customizable notification daemon
river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
pywal - 🎨 Generate and change color-schemes on the fly.
wayward - Fast desktop shell for wayland and weston.
Hardcode-Tray - Fixes Hardcoded tray icons in Linux