No Mir by default in Ubuntu 13.10 [LWN.net]

No Mir by default in Ubuntu 13.10

Posted Oct 2, 2013 21:31 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: No Mir by default in Ubuntu 13.10 by rsidd
Parent article: No Mir by default in Ubuntu 13.10

> XMir runs on Mir. It is a major achievement to replace Xorg with XMir.

It's more accurate to say that Mir runs on XMir.

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/26254.html

It's a bit old article, but I doubt a huge amount has changed.

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No Mir by default in Ubuntu 13.10

Posted Oct 2, 2013 22:09 UTC (Wed) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

Not really. XMir is a Mir client, it depends on there being a Mir server process running. It just doesn't use that Mir server for performing drawing operations.