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# Blog posts tagged "mir-kiosk"

#### [Mir 2.5, incorporating new features to improve the development of embedded graphic applications](https://canonical.com/blog/mir-2-5-enhancing-digital-signage-and-smart-screen-development)

With another release of Mir, we have prepared a new blog with the a roundup of the product’s newest features. Mir is our flexible display server that provides a set of libraries and a Wayland compositor for building Wayland-based shells with integrated window management. Today, Canonical is launching Mir 2.5, a new version of Mir

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Internet of Things

#### [Mir 2.4, enhancing digital signage and smart screen development](https://canonical.com/blog/mir-2-4-enhancing-digital-signage-and-smart-screen-development)

Another cycle brings another release of Mir, with new features and new innovative use cases. For those of you new to Mir, our flexible display server provides a set of libraries and Wayland compositor for building Wayland-based shells with integrated window management. It is widely used in different IoT applications, including digital sig

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Internet of Things

#### [Creating Graphical Shells – Try Mir in a Virtual Machine](https://canonical.com/blog/creating-graphical-shells-try-mir-in-a-virtual-machine)

What is Mir? Mir is a set of libraries for creating graphical shells for Linux on a range of hardware. This means that there are a number of shells based on Mir and they work on some very different form factors. Mir is what glues together the “shell” experience, the applications and the hardware: Mir

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Internet of Things

#### [A snap confined shell based on Mir: Mircade](https://canonical.com/blog/a-snap-confined-shell-based-on-mir-mircade)

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 applications and have them

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Internet of Things

#### [Mir support for Wayland](https://canonical.com/blog/mir-support-for-wayland)

What is Mir, what is Wayland, do I care? Shells for graphical interfaces come in many forms, from digital signage and kiosks that just show a single full screen application; to desktop environments that manage multiple applications, multiple screens and multiple workspaces. Traditionally, shells are built from a number of closely coupled

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Internet of Things

#### [The rise of the Digital Smart Kiosk](https://canonical.com/blog/the-rise-of-the-digital-smart-kiosk)

This is a guest blog by Jody Smith, Product Manager at Broadsign.  The world’s increasing demand for quick, personalised service often clashes with budgetary concerns and the limited throughput that individual workers are capable of. Fortunately, there’s a solution: touch-enabled, digital smart kiosks. Today’s smart kiosks are a far cry f

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Internet of Things

#### [How mir-kiosk enables a graphical IoT using Mir](https://canonical.com/blog/mir-kiosk-uses-mir)

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, digital

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Internet of Things