"Cage" Sees Initial Test Release For Kiosk-Like Wayland Compositor

[phoronix]

Phoronix: "Cage" Sees Initial Test Release For Kiosk-Like Wayland Compositor

The Cage Wayland Compositor for kiosk / full-screen-one-app environments has managed to materialize...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Cage-Wayland-Pre-Release

[uid313]

You might not even need XWayland support and all those other fancy functionalities for a Kiosk-like compositor.
You're likely just going to want to run one fullscreen application, such as a web browser.

[AlanGriffiths]

You might not even need XWayland support and all those other fancy functionalities for a Kiosk-like compositor.
You're likely just going to want to run one fullscreen application, such as a web browser.

That's not been our experience with mir-kiosk.

A lot of the "kiosk" applications (such as web browsers) only use X11 and that needs Xwayland to translate.

[tildearrow]

In the meanwhile, so far every single ATM/vending machine/whatever I've seen in my country still run Windows.