The release of the display server Mir 2.10 is presented, the development of which continues by Canonical, despite the refusal to develop the Unity shell and the Ubuntu edition for smartphones. Mir remains in demand in Canonical projects and is now positioned as a solution for embedded devices and the Internet of things (IoT). Mir can be used as a composite server for Wayland, which allows you to run any applications using Wayland (for example, built with GTK3/4, Qt5/6 or SDL2) in Mir-based environments. Installation packages are prepared for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04 and 22.10 (PPA) and Fedora 34, 35, 36 and 37. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license.
The new version has modernized handling of events from touch screens, support for a new screen gesture for moving windows (drag and drop with Shift, Alt or Ctrl keys pressed), added the ability to move windows from the maximized state, the correct choice of pixel formats has been implemented for the X11 platform, and scrolling has been improved.
Source: opennet.ru