Blog posts tagged
"sc:snap:mir-kiosk"

4 posts

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 Pope
25 June 2020

Split Personality Snaps

Article Internet of Things

Broadly speaking, most snaps in the Snap Store fall into one of two categories, desktop applications and server daemons. The graphical applications such as Chromium and Spotify use desktop files, which ensure they can be opened on demand by any user via a menu or launcher. The server applications such as NextCloud and...

Alan Pope
25 June 2020

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

Alan Griffiths
21 September 2018

IoT Graphics: Mir Release 1.0

Article Internet of Things

The Mir team is pleased to announce the milestone release of Mir 1.0.0. This is the first major release targeted at IoT device makers and enthusiasts looking to build the next-generation of graphical solutions. Mir is a display server and is used by other projects to draw graphics on the screen. The Mir team have

Alan Griffiths
21 September 2018