Only shown red arrow for mir_demo_server && mir_demo_client?

[Alan Griffiths]

Hi Mir user,

you're unlikely to amaze your friends with these demo programs - they
are targeted at developers wanting to know how to write for Mir, not (at
least currently) end users.

The arrow you see is a cursor (admittedly an unsophisticated one) it
should move with your mouse.

The binaries have poor names (c.f.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mir/+bug/1108715) and this is one cause of
your confusion. (There is also a lack of documentation - not even a
"--help" option.)

Anyway...

mir_demo_client is a minimal example of the code needed to connect to
the Mir server - it doesn't actually display anything.

mir_demo_client_accelerated and mir_demo_client_unaccelerated show two
different ways of displaying something.

mir_egl* are additional clients that also display things.

mir_demo_shell is an alternative server that supports Alt-TAB switching
between multiple clients.

HTH
Alan


On 04/05/13 06:41, Xiang Zhai wrote:
> Hi Mir developers,
>
> When sudo mir_demo_server in VT1, only shown a red arrow in the middle
> of the screen!
> Then sudo chmod 777 /tmp/mir_socket, run mir_demo_client in VT2, it
> still shown that red arrow switched back to VT1.
> And switched to VT2, mir_demo_client already quit released connection
> && Surface.
>
> Do I need to try some other demo server && client to make my friends
> be amazed :)
>
> I built the latest mir up-to-date by bzr pull from
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mir-team/mir/trunk/
> And also built mesa from bzr+ssh://bazaar.launchpad.net/+branch/mesa/
> What is more built drm from git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/drm
> Do I miss something else?
>
> OS: Ubuntu 13.04 64-bit
> VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor
> Graphics Controller (rev 09)
>