How-to guides

These how-to guides cover the key aspects of working with Mir.

• Developing a Compositor: build your own, custom compositor with Mir

• Developing protocol extensions for Mir: extend your compositor with support for a custom protocol extension

• Getting involved in Mir: first steps to contributing to Mir

• Using checkbox-mir: validating your environment using checkbox-mir

• Calibrating a touchscreen device: creating and using a calibration matrix using the libinput snap

• Enabling graphics-core22 on a device: creating a graphics-core22 provider snap for a new board

• How to specify start up applications

• How to handle user input

• Specifying CSD/SSD Preference