Cagebreak is a Wayland tiling compositor.
The goal of this project is to provide a successor to ratpoison for Wayland users. However, this is no reimplementation of ratpoison.
It allows for the screen to be split into non-overlapping tiles and, in contrast to the original ratpoison, has native support for multi-workspace operation.
All interactions between the user and cagebreak are done via the keyboard.
Configuration of this behaviour is specified in the $XDG_CONFIG_PATH/cagebreak/config file (See cagebreak-config(5)).
Scripting support is provided through the IPC socket specified in the environment variable $CAGEBREAK_SOCKET. The syntax accepted through this socket is identical to that of the configuration file (see cagebreak-config(5)). Errors which occur during interaction over IPC channel are displayed in a message box at the top right of the screen.
Cagebreak is free and open source software.
Website: github.com/project-repo/cagebreak
Support: FAQ
Developer: The Cagebreak authors
License: MIT License
Cagebreak is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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