cage-kiosk/cage
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A Wayland kiosk
11 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 1 story, 10 comments · first 2019-10-08 · latest 2025-12-25
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…Pi OS defaults to Wayland nowadays, and there's specific kiosk Wayland compositors like Cage ( https://github.com/cage-kiosk/cage ). Tho admittedly kiosk-wm ( https://github.com/JOT85/kiosk-wm ) is much more succinct.
comment by c-hendricks · 2025-12-25 · in Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig -
…etc. > All windows are full-screen, just one is visible at any given time. Oh, it's like cage ( https://github.com/cage-kiosk/cage ) for X11. I was wondering ex. how you'd even move windows around in that little code; the answer is "you…
comment by yjftsjthsd-h · 2025-07-24 · in Mwm – The smallest usable X11 window manager -
…for that This is actually surprisingly easy, too. My first experiments ran a wayland app in cage ( https://github.com/cage-kiosk/cage ), but in order to better handle multiple windows I switched to sway with a lightly tweaked config, and…
comment by yjftsjthsd-h · 2025-06-20 · in Wayland is growing up. and now we don't have a choice -
…used it, but I have seen cage [0] being recommended a few times for similar use-cases. [0] - https://github.com/cage-kiosk/cage
comment by vially · 2024-07-06 · in Writing GUI applications on the Raspberry Pi without a desktop environment (2019) -
…and you're just working around drivers that don't support Xorg, you can just run cage ( https://github.com/cage-kiosk/cage ), run xwayland on that, and run your real GUI on that. Of course, then you're skipping all the advantages of…
comment by yjftsjthsd-h · 2024-03-30 · in Wayland breaks your bad software -
…when I want to run waydroid I just run it in cage[0] in a window in my usual environment. [0] https://github.com/cage-kiosk/cage
comment by yjftsjthsd-h · 2024-02-29 · in Are We Wayland Yet? -
That did help me find https://github.com/cage-kiosk/cage/wiki initially I'm here there's other going down that path. Thanks
comment by Already__Taken · 2023-12-21 · in The Linux graphics stack in a nutshell -
…You can run Wayland inside Xorg via cage[1] so you don't need to use a Wayland compositor. [1]: https://github.com/cage-kiosk/cage
comment by terracottalite · 2023-07-07 · in Android Games on PC -
…is the minimal Cage compositor for wayland, that only supports running a single fullscreen program: https://github.com/Hjdskes/cage With some hackery, you could probably build this as a backend for GTK/Qt that would run the server in the…
comment by cycloptic · 2020-03-05 · in The X-Windows Disaster (1994) -
It IS being worked on but in the meantime, gio apps can be run on X using https://github.com/Hjdskes/cage (a very simple wayland compositor)
comment by vhodges · 2019-10-08 · in Gio: Portable, Immediate Mode GUI in Go