The video:
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://danklinux.com/
- Saviq pointed at GitHub - canonical/mir-extras: This contains code and components that supplement the Mir display server library · GitHub
- 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