Mir 1.5.0 Release

[alan_g]

mir-kiosk

The mir-kiosk snap has been tested and updated to Mir 1.5

Using mir-kiosk

Graphics on Ubuntu Core On Ubuntu Core a recommended way to get graphical applications running is to use mir-kiosk: snap install mir-kiosk Running mir-kiosk on your desktop is convenient for experimentation and testing snaps under development: Applications on mir-kiosk Mir supports applications using the Wayland protocol. That means applications using many of the popular toolkits including GTK3, Qt5 and SDL2. There are some “kiosk” snaps in the store, the ones I’ve tried and can recomme…

mir-test-tools

Mir-test-tools as a snap

For a long time now we have had test tools that help with device bring-up and with ensuring that we can run our example applications. Until now that has been available as the mir-test-tools package. However, this doesn’t “play nice” with Ubuntu Core and as a result I’ve been been working to repackage the mir-test-tools as a snap and make it available in the snap store. I’m pleased to announce a release candidate of the mir-test-tools snap. This makes it easy to run the following tests: sudo …