Miracle-WM v0.3 Released - Working Out To Daily-Drive This Mir-Based Wayland Compositor

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Miracle-WM v0.3 Released - Working Out To Daily-Drive This Mir-Based Wayland Compositor

Canonical engineer Matthew Kosarek has released Miracle-WM v0.3 as the newest version of this Wayland tiling compositor built atop Mir. Miracle-WM is beginning to be useful and practical enough for daily driving by its lead developer...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Miracle-WM-0.3

[Malsabku]

For which DE I can use this WM?

[V1tol]

We don't have enough VMs, we need more.

[NateHubbard]

For which DE I can use this WM?

This isn't part of a desktop environment. You can probably run whatever apps you want on it though.

[NateHubbard]

We don't have enough VMs, we need more.

This isn't a virtual machine either.

[slagiewka]

Oh the death of small WMs. Wayland, what have you done.

[Malsabku]

Oh the death of small WMs. Wayland, what have you done.

Maybe there is a market for this.

With the death of X11 many small WMs like OpenBox, FluxBox, IceWM will die. So there is a need for new small WMs on Wayland. Maybe Miracle can fill this position.

[skeevy420]

Oh the death of small WMs. Wayland, what have you done.

Created core Wayland options like Mir, wlroots, Weston, CoMo, and more that can be used to build WMs from or be used for rootful windows and sessions. Now that there are solid foundations we're starting to see more and more smaller WMs fill the spaces that the Boxes and whatnot filled for X11 and a combination of rootful and XWayland can help keep alive X11 window managers.

We're starting to have all the bits and pieces to be able to run all the new and old graphical stuff. Pretty exciting times if you look at it from a glass half full perspective.

There's pros and cons to that fragmentation, but things are a lot better than they were 8 years ago or even 1 year ago. KDE Wayland now and 1 year ago are two totally different beasts.

Anyways, I about had a seizure watching the three windows resize and move around in the beginning of that video. Neat looking WM otherwise

[QwertyChouskie]

Anyways, I about had a seizure watching the three windows resize and move around in the beginning of that video. Neat looking WM otherwise

Yeah, kinda a bummer that the video was like 10FPS, those animations are probably nice in person but the video is not functional as a demonstration of animations.

[AlanTuring69]

Can it run crysis though?

I wonder when they're going to remove Mir and switch to Wayland.