Mir progress

[Alexander Sack]

On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 1:42 AM, Michael Terry
<michael.terry at canonical.com> wrote:
> How to generate a framework/service version of unity-system-compositor:
>
> bzr branch lp:~mir-team/mir/snappy-packaging
> cd snappy-packaging
> make
>
> You'll now have a snap in your current directory.
>
> Once installed, you may control the service with the service name
> mir_system-compositor_0.
>
> This snap installs a wrapper for consumers to easily connect Mir apps to the
> current running compositor, to be used like:
> /apps/mir/current/bin/mir-run [program] [arguments]
>
> How to generate an example xfreerdp program using the above service:
>
> bzr branch lp:~mterry/+junk/snappy-preload
> cd snappy-preload
> make
> cd tools
> ./make-snap -d 15.04/beta-2 --aa-profile
> /usr/share/apparmor/easyprof/templates/ubuntu-snappy/1.3/unconfined --xmir
> xfreerdp
>
> Now you can install this and use it like so:
> sudo /apps/bin/xfreerdp.rdp /u:user /p:password /v:server
>
> It unfortunately still needs to be run as root (for xorg input to work).
>
> Next steps:
>
> Get the permissions sorted out, to see how to stop running these unconfined
> / as root.  But everything seems functional!
>

MIR system compositor framework used by xmir based freerdp app to get
a thin client appliance on snappy... pretty amazing story!

Thanks for the update!

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