Mir News

Website

@saviq and I have been working with the web team to re-vamp the Mir website. These things are never finished, but we’re very pleased with the progress so far!

ppa:mir-team/dev

We’ve had a bunch of bugfixes landing on master. These include:

A couple of cursor related bugs (#555 and #556);

A focus related fix #522;

A major fix for VT switching (#459) (thanks @raof, now finish off Nvidia support!) ; and,

A runtime error on musl (#574) interesting, as I didn’t know Mir was running on musl!

There’s also been some updates:

Improvements to the mir-kiosk display configuration; and,

We’ve moved entirely to our own Wayland protocol generator (reworked by @wmww) for easier integration with C++.

Snapcraft

There’s some re-engineering of the way graphics snaps connect, @greyback had most of the pieces lined up before going on vacation; @saviq has taken on the job of putting the last bits in place. If you’re working on graphical snaps that use mir-kiosk then “watch this space”, it is about to get a whole lot easier!

Desktop

The egmde snap has an “edge” branch tracking Mir development. More here.

Phone

One of the UBports developers has shared an image of mir 0.32 running on z5:

Their plan to ship with the latest Mir in January appears to be well on track!