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Miracle-WM 0.2 Released For Mir-Based Wayland Compositor

([Wayland] 6 Hours Ago Miracle-WM 0.2)


Announced back in February was [1]Miracle-WM as a Wayland compositor built atop Mir and developed by Canonical engineer Matthew Kosarek. Today he announced version 0.2 as the latest feature update to this Wayland compositor with tiling window management.

Miracle-WM 0.2 brings Sway/i3 IPC support for minimally supporting Waybar, support for floating window managers, the user configuration is now automatically reloaded when a change is made to it, environment variables can now be specified in the configuration file, and upgrading against the upstream Mir 2.16.4 code. Plus there are a handful of bug fixes in this Miracle-WM pre-release.

In addition to the Snap packaging for Miracle-WM, Kosarek is also going to be maintaining Fedora RPM and Ubuntu Debian packages too for this compositor.

More details on the Miracle-WM v0.2 release and downloads via [2]GitHub .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Miracle-WM

[2] https://github.com/mattkae/miracle-wm/releases/tag/v0.2.0



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