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cage(1) General Commands Manual cage(1)

NAME

cage - a Wayland kiosk compositor

SYNOPSIS

cage [-dhmrsv] [--] application [application argument ...]

DESCRIPTION

Cage runs a single, maximized application. Cage can run multiple applications, but only a single one is visible at any point in time. User interaction and activities outside the scope of the running application are prevented.

OPTIONS

-d

Don't draw client side decorations when possible.

-h

Show the help message.

-m <mode>

Set the multi-monitor behavior. Supported modes are: last Cage uses only the last connected monitor. extend Cage extends the display across all connected monitors.

-s

Allow VT switching

-v

Show the version number and exit.

ENVIRONMENT

DISPLAY

If compiled with Xwayland support, this will be set to the name of the X display used for Xwayland. Otherwise, probe the X11 backend.

WAYLAND_DISPLAY

Specifies the name of the Wayland display that Cage is running on.

XCURSOR_PATH

Directory where cursors are located.

XCURSOR_SIZE

Specifies the configured cursor size.

XCURSOR_THEME

Specifies the configured cursor theme.

XKB_DEFAULT_RULES, XKB_DEFAULT_MODEL, XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT, XKB_DEFAULT_VARIANT, XKB_DEFAULT_OPTIONS

Configures the xkb keyboard settings. See xkeyboard-config(7).

SEE ALSO

xkeyboard-config(7)

BUGS

Report bugs at https://github.com/cage-kiosk/cage

AUTHORS

Jente Hidskes <dev@hjdskes.nl>

2024-10-07