Egmde is available from the snap store

Background

I’ve been exploring the possibility of running a Mir desktop shell as a snap and using egmde as a test case.

This is a work-in-progress

I’ve found there are some, as yet unresolved issues making this a confined snap, but have made the current version available on the snap store.

This is a “classic” snap that only works on Ubuntu 18.04LTS.

Installing from the snap store

sudo snap install --classic --beta egmde

Run as an app on your X11 based desktop

snap run egmde

Run as desktop session

Log out and select “egmde” session when logging back in.

Warning

This is an experiment, not a production deployment. Egmde is not a fully functional shell. X11 based applications will not work.