Only shown red arrow for mir_demo_server && mir_demo_client?

[Xiang Zhai]

> Hi Mir user,
Linux Deepin BD say hi to Mir developers :)
>
> 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.
Emm... there are a lot of cool videos on youtube about Mir on PC && 
Android, so how is going about Mir and UnityNextUI? Is it available to 
Mir developers && users in Ubuntu 13.10?
>
> The arrow you see is a cursor (admittedly an unsophisticated one) it
> should move with your mouse.
I do not often use my mouse, and I experienced the cursor moving now :)
> 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.
Yes, it is a very good Hello World example to connect and create Surface :)
> mir_demo_client_accelerated and mir_demo_client_unaccelerated show two
> different ways of displaying something.
And I experienced mir_demo_client_accelerated 
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNTUyMTQwMDI4.html
>
> 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)
>>