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[Kevin Gunn <kevin.gunn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, running legacy x apps to some degree is something we're going to
be working on. Granted we need to get our legs underneath us for the
window management work you're seeing from Michael now. Hopefully in
the early part of next year we'll spend some effort on plumbing
rootless X into unity8/qtmir.

br,kg

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Mitchell Reese
<dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm interested in running Unity8 full time, however there are various X11
> apps I use everyday - gimp, thunderbird, Zim, libreoffice, etc. Are there
> still plans for having X11 support - and consequently apps that currently
> depend upon it - running under app armor restrictions? Would love to see
> that this cycle.
>
> M
>
>
> On 25/11/14 08:05, Nicholas Skaggs wrote:
>>
>> On 11/24/2014 12:07 PM, Timo Leppiniemi wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> If I'll install vivid now which reps I need to add to test mir+windowing
>>> on a pc?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thanks,
>>> Timo Leppiniemi
>>>
>>>
>> I would recommend having a look at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity8inLXC for
>> now. I owe the wiki some updates and I plan to do a writeup on playing with
>> unity8 on the desktop very soon. I'd like to push more folks towards testing
>> it, and eventually running it full time. Fingers crossed we'll cross that
>> line this cycle.
>>
>> Nicholas
>>
>
>
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