Who wants to test MIR?

**Cheesemill** · March 6th, 2013

You get 3 different client applications installed as dependancies of mir, my results are as follows...

First switch to a TTY.

Code:

(sleep 5; mir_demo_client_accelerated) & mir ; kill $!

Segfaults after reporting 'Surface created'.

Code:

(sleep 5; mir_demo_client_unaccelerated) & mir ; kill $!

Segfaults after reporting 'Surface created'.

Code:

(sleep 5; mir_demo_client) & mir ; kill $!

Runs without reporting any errors and exits cleanly, but nothing is displayed on screen.

I've had about 3 lots of upgrades to the relevant packages since adding the PPA yesterday, I'll report back when any new upgrades alter my results.

**EgoGratis** · March 6th, 2013

This commands should work with just using PPA? I see XMir was added to PPA. XMir would/will allow something like running (current) Unity or other apps without Mir support that uses Xorg on top of Mir.

**Gyokuro** · March 6th, 2013

Originally Posted by nomenkultur

I red about this and for someone into management this triggers my ocd.

if the other display manager has an estimate cost of half a million

http://www.ohloh.net/p/weston/estimated_cost

and has been in development for 5 years, why not simply grab their code and fork it, modify, strip it etc... ?

The short answer is - Canonical can not control the further development of wayland but with 'Mir' they can do what they want.

**mcellius** · March 6th, 2013

The short answer is - Canonical can not control the further development of wayland but with 'Mir' they can do what they want.

Maybe they learned from their Gnome experience.

**ventrical** · March 6th, 2013

As I reported, I got er going!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaCMS...ature=youtu.be

**ventrical** · March 6th, 2013

Originally Posted by Cheesemill

You get 3 different client applications installed as dependancies of mir, my results are as follows...

First switch to a TTY.

Code:

(sleep 5; mir_demo_client_accelerated) & mir ; kill $!

Segfaults after reporting 'Surface created'.

Code:

(sleep 5; mir_demo_client_unaccelerated) & mir ; kill $!

Segfaults after reporting 'Surface created'.

Code:

(sleep 5; mir_demo_client) & mir ; kill $!

Runs without reporting any errors and exits cleanly, but nothing is displayed on screen.

I've had about 3 lots of upgrades to the relevant packages since adding the PPA yesterday, I'll report back when any new upgrades alter my results.

I actually got the first line of code to run!! It is just like in the video demo.

Edit:

Ok .. on the Xmir I forgot to upload this first.

it was really wierd. Mir is still loaded and I had to log in manually (without reboot) back to crtl+alt+F7, then sudo start lightdm and now I got this weird black screen with the unity panel on the side. Stuff is happening!!!

hehehehe

**woxuxow** · March 6th, 2013

I`ll wait for MIR`s final release
i`m sure it will be fantastic

**ventrical** · March 7th, 2013

Originally Posted by Cheesemill

You get 3 different client applications installed as dependancies of mir, my results are as follows...

First switch to a TTY.

Code:

(sleep 5; mir_demo_client_accelerated) & mir ; kill $!

Segfaults after reporting 'Surface created'.

Code:

(sleep 5; mir_demo_client_unaccelerated) & mir ; kill $!

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This second option produces a square light blue box at top-left screen that is flashing at a very high rate and it looks like there is a figure in there if some sort.