--- title: Using Cage for a seamless remote Wayland session | daily.dev description: Cage is a Wayland compositor designed for kiosks that launches a single application fullscreen and exits when that application closes. By combining Cage with... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/using-cage-for-a-seamless-remote-wayland-session-bnlmhuwfo twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Using Cage for a seamless remote Wayland session | daily.dev og:description: Cage is a Wayland compositor designed for kiosks that launches a single application fullscreen and exits when that application closes. By combining Cage with... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/using-cage-for-a-seamless-remote-wayland-session-bnlmhuwfo og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/BnlMhUWfo.png og:image:alt: Using Cage for a seamless remote Wayland session og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Using Cage for a seamless remote Wayland session **[Drew DeVault](https://daily.dev/sources/drewdevault)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Cage is a Wayland compositor designed for kiosks that launches a single application fullscreen and exits when that application closes. By combining Cage with the new RDP backend in wlroots and FreeRDP, you can create a seamless remote desktop session: run sway on a desktop machine with the RDP backend enabled, then use Cage on a laptop to launch xfreerdp fullscreen, effectively mirroring the desktop environment on the laptop with all input forwarded remotely. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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