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Mir 2.20 Brings Focus Stealing Prevention, Workaround/Quirk Fixes


Mir 2.20 is out today as the newest version of this Canonical-developed Wayland compositor and set of libraries for developing Wayland-based shells.

Mir 2.20 is out today as the newest version of this Canonical-developed Wayland compositor and set of libraries for developing Wayland-based shells. Enhancements: - Extract rendering strategy for decorations - MirOIL updates for post-new-Platform-API QtMir - feature: adding an is_above method to the SurfaceStack - Implement focus stealing prevention - Turn it on with --focus-stealing-prevention true on supported compositors. - Pass XDG_ACTIVATION_TOKEN to apps launched via launch_app_env - Publish mir*-internal libraries - Make key repeat and delay configurable - Improve Firefox surface.frame event quirk - Workaround for LXQt panel - Fix SSD text

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