Mir Now Has Initial Support For Wayland Clients

Written by Michael Larabel in Ubuntu on 18 September 2017 at 06:15 AM EDT. 9 Comments
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Quietly being added to the Mir display stack a week ago was initial support for Wayland clients.

Natively supporting Wayland clients within Mir has been a new goal for the remaining Mir developers at Canonical now that the original Mir plans were abandoned when Canonical did away with their grand vision for Unity 8. Mir is still being maintained at Canonical for some IoT use-cases while they hope some open-source projects will still decide to make use of their technology. With now at least having native Wayland client support, they stand some chance of Mir being useful to other groups.

Christopher James Halse Rogers landed the initial support back on 7 September and mentioned it's enough now to run es2gears_wayland On Mir and to provide input support to Wayland clients via Mir.

Mir developers have also incorporated the MirAL abstraction layer into Mir itself.

Mir 1.0 with Wayland support was a goal for Ubuntu 17.10, but while the release is close it has yet to be released and they are past the feature freeze now for the Artful Aardvark. This Launchpad tracker still shows several bugs blocking the release, including fullscreen Wayland clients not working as expected and Wayland clients not working on the miral-desktop. What we also still haven't seen for Mir is the long talked about Vulkan support.
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