Mir Office Hours - 2026-02-25 16:15UTC

[alan_g]

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.

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

Agenda

1. Actions from previous meeting
2. Input triggers update
3. FOSDEM recap
4. Lomiri running on Mir 2.x on Ubuntu Touch with hybris drivers
5. Mir 2.26 plan
6. …
7. 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.

[alan_g]

In the past we’ve tried alternating this western-friendly time with an apac-friendly one but as the latter was only attended by Mir team members we chose to keep to a time when the community can participate.

I’ve just had contact with a community member that cannot make this time (middle of their night). If there are more of you out there, then please let us know and we will try to accommodate you in future.

[saviq]

The video:

https://youtu.be/Cfhdxe3vsH0

And the notes:

• Update on previous actions
• Input triggers is coming soon
• FOSDEM talk
  • video available here: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/FFGPAZ-window_managers_after_xorg/
  • had good conversations with interesting people
  • Neal: spoke to people about modular options on Wayland
  • Josh: Mir has even more batteries included than other options
• Alfred: Lomiri on Mir 2.x with hybris (Ubuntu Touch on mobile devices)
  • first successes with new platform API
  • need a client wayland platform for libhybris
  • trust prompts are needed
    • possibly xdg_foreign and a custom protocol
    • want to keep the user experience
  • xdg_desktop_portal support
    • might be a collaboration with Budgie
  • virtual displays for display streaming
    • possibly a Mir 1.x system compositor
  • Josh asked if Qt6 is part of this effort
    • separate work stream, but in progress as well
• Saviq: Mir 2.26
  • as soon as input triggers come in
  • likely 3-4 weeks away
• Matt: Miracle Fedora spin uses Material Shell
  • Neal: https://material-shell.com/
• Saviq pointed at GitHub - canonical/mir-extras: This contains code and components that supplement the Mir display server library
• Josh: what about output management?
  • Saviq coming back to this: there’s zero consensus
  • KDE is a much better protocol to work with than wlr
  • Saviq: output management is a special case
  • Neal, Josh: Modular Desktop means to have a more reusable approach in due time
  • Neal: avoid Mir internal at all cost
  • Alan: miracle-wm is an experiment to show us what’s missing
  • Josh: could there be an OutputPolicy like for window management?
    • Alan: it’s an option, but never realized
• Josh: supported protocols are not documented
  • Saviq: https://wayland.app/protocols is one way, but needs updating, and shouldn’t be the only way
• Neal: could we have more of a roadmap
  • Alan: issues and PRs right now
  • Saviq: we can share the roadmap better than just the office hours
  • Saviq: whole section in docs on contributing: https://canonical-mir.readthedocs-hosted.com/stable/contributing/

Action items

• @saviq to improve Wayland protocol support documentation
• @matthew-kosarek to update and automate https://wayland.app/protocols
• @saviq to publish roadmap in docs
• @alan_g to improve how-to-contribute stories