Blog posts tagged
"mir-kiosk"

7 posts

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
13 October 2021

Mir 2.5, incorporating new features to improve the development of embedded graphic applications

Article Internet of Things

With another release of Mir, we have prepared a new blog with the a roundup of the product’s newest features. Mir is our flexible display server that provides a set of libraries and a Wayland compositor for building Wayland-based shells with integrated window management. Today, Canonical is launching Mir 2.5, a new...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
13 October 2021

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
18 June 2021

Mir 2.4, enhancing digital signage and smart screen development

Article Internet of Things

Another cycle brings another release of Mir, with new features and new innovative use cases. For those of you new to Mir, our flexible display server provides a set of libraries and Wayland compositor for building Wayland-based shells with integrated window management. It is widely used in different IoT applications,...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
18 June 2021

Alan Griffiths
25 February 2021

Creating Graphical Shells – Try Mir in a Virtual Machine

Article Internet of Things

What is Mir? Mir is a set of libraries for creating graphical shells for Linux on a range of hardware. This means that there are a number of shells based on Mir and they work on some very different form factors. Mir is what glues together the “shell” experience, the applications and the hardware: Mir

Alan Griffiths
25 February 2021

Alan Griffiths
3 July 2020

A snap confined shell based on Mir: Mircade

Article Internet of Things

Mircade: An example snap confined user shell There are various scenarios and reasons for packaging a Snap confined shell and a selection of applications together in a confined environment. You might have applications that work well together for a particular task; or, you may want to offer a number of alternative...

Alan Griffiths
3 July 2020

Alan Griffiths
24 July 2019

Mir support for Wayland

Article Internet of Things

What is Mir, what is Wayland, do I care? Shells for graphical interfaces come in many forms, from digital signage and kiosks that just show a single full screen application; to desktop environments that manage multiple applications, multiple screens and multiple workspaces. Traditionally, shells are built from a number...

Alan Griffiths
24 July 2019

Guest
9 November 2018

The rise of the Digital Smart Kiosk

Article Internet of Things

This is a guest blog by Jody Smith, Product Manager at Broadsign.  The world’s increasing demand for quick, personalised service often clashes with budgetary concerns and the limited throughput that individual workers are capable of. Fortunately, there’s a solution: touch-enabled, digital smart kiosks. Today’s smart...

Guest
9 November 2018

Alan Griffiths
4 October 2018

How mir-kiosk enables a graphical IoT using Mir

Case study Internet of Things

If you have a problem… if you just need support for one fullscreen application… and, if you can use snaps… maybe you can use… mir-kiosk. Many devices need to provide some sort of graphical output or display (with the options of keyboard, mouse and touchscreen input) to the user. Some examples include interactive kiosks,...

Alan Griffiths
4 October 2018