Mir Office Hours - 2025-07-17 15:15UTC

Project Discussion Mir
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We host Mir Office Hours every month

Everyone is welcome. No prior arrangements are necessary. You don’t need to sign-up, or register. Just click on the link to join, for as little or as much time as you can spare, at any time during the event.

We’ll schedule these every month, trying to alternate between western- and eastern-hemisphere friendly times.

Agenda

  1. Actions from previous meeting
  2. Mir 2.21 release
  3. Mir 2.22 release :slight_smile:
    • DRM sync objects
    • Nvidia on GBM
    • More accessibility support: simulated secondary click, magnification
    • Live configuration helpers in MirAL
    • Bypass on Atomic KMS
    • overlay_cursor in screencopy
  4. Miriway support for ext-workspace
  5. …
  6. Any Other Business

If you have any questions you’d like us to answer or topics to cover, please feel free to ask them live, or leave them as comments below - we’ll be able to prepare better and select some to make space for in the agenda

Notes

We’ll post notes from each meeting in a comment below for posterity and discussion.

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The recording:

https://youtu.be/3J7ipbg4rmY

And the notes:

  • Update on 2.21 and upcoming 2.22 releases
  • MirAL allows now for dealing with wayland internals
  • How about the new image copy protocols?
    • on roadmap for 25.10
  • How is the live configuration API supposed to work?
    • shells can implement a layer of configuration appropriate for it
    • question if screen readers might fit into this story?
  • ORCA exposes a keyboard-monitor DBus API that GNOME and KDE use, Cosmic has a custom protocol
    • possibly plays into the global shortcut protocol, TBD
  • Other business
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