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Mir - Wayland compositor

Mir is set of libraries for building Wayland based shells. Mir simplifies the complexity that shell authors need to deal with: it provides a stable, well tested and performant platform with touch, mouse and tablet input, multi-display capability and secure client-server communications.

Mir deals with the bringup and configuration of a broad array of graphics and input hardware, abstracts hardware differences away from shell authors (transparently dealing with hardware quirks) and integrates with system components such as greeters.

Window management is integrated into Mir with useful default behaviour and is extremely customisable by shell authors using a simple high-level API.

Resources

See the Mir website.

Code is hosted on GitHub.

For announcements and other discussions on Mir see Ubuntu Discourse or use Matrix.

Developer documentation, including installation and build instructions are hosted online.

Copyright and License

Copyright © Canonical Ltd.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or 3 as published by the Free Software Foundation.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.