Miracle-WM 0.4 Released With i3 IPC Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Miracle-WM 0.4 Released With i3 IPC Support

Miracle-WM is the Mir-based Wayland tiling window manager that is inspired in part by the likes of i3 and Sway. Miracle-WM also has a goal to be a flagship example of a Mir-based full featured window manager with this project being led by a Canonical engineer. Out today is Miracle-WM 0.4 to deliver the latest features...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Miracle-WM-0.4-Released

[Nuc!eoN]

Lets hope for more adoption around Mir!

[ehansin]

I installed in one of my VM instances (think is was Fedora 41). The documentation is pretty lacking in regards to getting a default configuration going and could not find a default config file after installing. Basically, could not do anything with it. But I am keeping tabs, as I do with a lot of the new more minimalist Wayland window managers (yes, I know this is Mir, but Mir is now based on Wayland in some capacity).

[royce]

Anybody that's used both miraclewm and sway care to comment how they compare?

[uid313]

Lets hope for more adoption around Mir!

Why?

I am not trolling, it is a serious question. I am not aware of the purpose of Mir, or what it is suppose to be good for. Please explain it to me.

[mobadboy]

Why?

I am not trolling, it is a serious question. I am not aware of the purpose of Mir, or what it is suppose to be good for. Please explain it to me.

It makes it easier to build WMs, similar to wlroots but seems to abstract out even more(?).

not totally sure of pros/cons compared to wlr but it's an alternative which is good to have.

[Gabbb]

Anybody that's used both miraclewm and sway care to comment how they compare?

MirWM is very far from production ready, so it's not really worth comparing them right now.

I think it's good that WLR is not the only game in town though.

[Daktyl198]

Why?

I am not trolling, it is a serious question. I am not aware of the purpose of Mir, or what it is suppose to be good for. Please explain it to me.

Mir is basically a fully featured Wayland compositor stack that you just write a UI on top of. Think of all the things that X.org handled for window managers or DEs that just had to hook into it, that's basically what Mir aims to be. If more window managers adopted it, it would lead to a much more "standardized" implementation of Wayland outside of Gnome and KDE.

wlroots is a good project, but it's really not much more than a collection of helper functions based around the wayland protocol and the majority of everything else is on you. It's main rise to fame is because Sway was one of the very first Wayland-only WMs, and because it's code is very clean, making it easy for others to re-use.

[accelerator]

Why?

I am not trolling, it is a serious question. I am not aware of the purpose of Mir, or what it is suppose to be good for. Please explain it to me.

For me is kind of pointless at this point . after so many years Mir seems to me as a waste of time and efford.

[guildem]

wlroots is a good project, but it's really not much more than a collection of helper functions based around the wayland protocol and the majority of everything else is on you. It's main rise to fame is because Sway was one of the very first Wayland-only WMs, and because it's code is very clean, making it easy for others to re-use.

A "collection of helpers" with multiple backends, gl/vulkan renderers, color management, input/output management... They do the most difficult parts of a compositor, the rest is only window management and chosen protocols, and is depending of what you want to do for your compositor.