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Cagebreak vs dwl: catalog facts
Cagebreak	dwl

Best for: Ratpoison fans who want a keyboard-only tiling compositor on Wayland	Best for: dwm users moving to Wayland who want a minimal tiling compositor
Free Free and open source.	Free Free and open source.
Linux	Linux
Fully keyboard-driven tiling on Wayland Signed releases with documented hashes Man pages and example configurations included	dwm-style dynamic tiling on Wayland Small C codebase built on wlroots Community patch collection for extra features Actively maintained
Minimal by design, with no decorations or visual extras Smaller user base than sway or Hyprland	Customisation usually means editing source and recompiling Minimal by design, so bars and extras come from other tools
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License not stated
No account needed	No account needed
Offline features available	Offline features available
Official website Full listing and sources Sources for Cagebreak github.com/project-repo/cagebreak Catalog checked October 1, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Sources for dwl codeberg.org/dwl/dwl Catalog checked September 24, 2026

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