wayremap
Dynamic key remapper for Wayland Window System, especially for Sway (by acro5piano)
cagebreak
Cagebreak: A Wayland Tiling Compositor Inspired by Ratpoison (by project-repo)
| wayremap | cagebreak | |
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| 6 | 8 | |
| 59 | 329 | |
| - | 1.5% | |
| 0.0 | 2.5 | |
| over 2 years ago | 12 days ago | |
| Python | C | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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wayremap
Posts with mentions or reviews of wayremap.
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EXWM and Wayland
No. But there are solutions (which I haven’t used my self). See: https://github.com/acro5piano/wayremap
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Should You trust a keyboard re mapper
Perhaps something like Wayremap?
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[dwm+sxhkd] Is it possible to change hotkeys based on the focused window?
Is saw Wayremap announced earlier today. It sounded like it'd offer the functionality, but perhaps not under the circumstances you request.
- I've created Dynamic key remapper for Wayland Window System, especially for Sway
- Dynamic key remapper for Wayland Window System, especially for Sway
- Show HN: Wayremap is a Dynamic key remapper for Wayland desktop environment
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 2025-03-12.
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The Future Is Niri
I still use ratpoison, dreading the day it stops working for whatever reason (wayland being a likely one). Haven't tried it, but Cagebreak (https://github.com/project-repo/cagebreak) seems like a possible successor.
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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
What are some alternatives?
When comparing wayremap and cagebreak you can also consider the following projects:
xremap - Key remapper for X11 and Wayland
kiwmi - A fully programmable Wayland Compositor
nwg-wrapper - Wrapper to display a script output or a text file content on the desktop in sway or other wlroots-based compositors
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
keyd - A key remapping daemon for linux.
sway-borders - Fork of sway with some extra features, mainly related to borders.