Firefox wayland on mir-kiosk

[zhex900]

Hi,

I am trying to build a firefox wayland package that will run mir-kiosk. I am trying to follow this tutorial https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/wayland-kiosk#4-test-your-application-supports-wayland.

But I am now stuck please see the errors in this thread.

`miral-app -kiosk -terminal ‘/snap/firefox/current/firefox’ will start firefox inside mir-kiosk window.

Using Firefox/Wayland on Mir servers

Firefox will work “out of the box” on Mir servers that are configured to support X11 applications. But Firefox has support for Wayland and it would be good to enable this. There are a couple of things that need doing for Firefox to use Wayland on Mir servers: It needs MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND set in the Firefox environment. Secondly, it needs gfx.webrender.all set to true in the user options of the current profile. While the latter can be set in the Firefox GUI I found it convenient to write a scr…

[alan_g]

@zhex900

`miral-app -kiosk -terminal ‘/snap/firefox/current/firefox’ will start firefox inside mir-kiosk window.

It is not normally possible to run a snapped executable outside of the snap context. The tutorial suggests running the unsnapped, .deb install. I.e.

miral-app -kiosk -terminal firefox