cagebreak
Cagebreak: A Wayland Tiling Compositor Inspired by Ratpoison (by project-repo)
labwc
A Wayland window-stacking compositor (by labwc)
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| 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
labwc
Posts with mentions or reviews of labwc.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-13.
- Three signs that Wayland is becoming the favored way to get a GUI on Linux
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Looking for the most minimal wm available rn
labwc?
- I Still Use Windows 95 (archived, 2008)
- What is the lightest wayland floating wm/desktop environment
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Suggestions
I'd recommend checking in on the IRC channel or opening a Github issue, much better way to get in touch with the developers! I'm just a very enthusiastic user who likes to report bugs. :D
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Wayland section in site
labwc https://github.com/labwc/labwc
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help me choose a wm
Just fyi, river is nothing like awesome, it's like bspwm. There was an attempt to make an awesome clone for wayland but it's no longer under development. Also, though it's not tiling, for completeness there's also labwc which is a wayland clone of openbox.
- Build My Own?
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What window manager or desktop environment do you use?
I've been using labwc for nearly a year now and I'm really happy with it. Its a simple floating wm though, so not sure that would be something you are looking for.
- Labwc vs Waybox
What are some alternatives?
When comparing cagebreak and labwc you can also consider the following projects:
sway-borders - Fork of sway with some extra features, mainly related to borders.
wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
archcraft - // Source : ISO
kiwmi - A fully programmable Wayland Compositor
jgmenu - An X11 menu
river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
manjaro-sway - manjaro linux with wayland 🖼, sway 🌴 and a lot of ♥
wayward - Fast desktop shell for wayland and weston.
Waybar - Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. :v: :tada:
Hyprland - Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
openbox - Openbox Window Manager (OpenboxWM)