Convergence for all Device Form Factors
So, what's Lomiri?
- Formerly known as Unity 8, originally started by Canonical Ltd.
- Ubuntu Touch's operating shell
- One operating environment for all your devices
- Fully Free and Open Source
- Community driven development, but financially backed
Consumer of Mir Wayland Compositor & Ayatana Indicators
Install Lomiri on Debian 13
- Install Debian.
For more information about how to use the installer and get it onto a USB stick, see the Debian CD FAQ and the Debian Installation Guide
On the Software selection screen of the installer, uncheck the boxes next to Debian desktop environment and GNOME. The only box selected should be standard system utilities.
- After install completes, log in
Run apt install lomiri
After install completes, run reboot
Install Lomiri on Debian Testing
Visit https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/ . Choose your architecture, then choose iso-cd, then download the debian-testing-{ARCH}-netinst.iso
For most desktop computers with an Intel or AMD CPU, your architecture is amd64. Another common architecture is arm64 for devices with an ARM CPU.
- Install Debian.
On the Software selection screen of the installer, check the box next to Lomiri and uncheck the box next to GNOME. The only boxes selected should be Debian desktop environment, Lomiri, and standard system utilities.
Using GNOME Boxes
If you are using GNOME Boxes to test Debian on Lomiri in a virtual machine, you need to enable 3D acceleration. If you don't, then Lomiri and Lomiri's login screen won't start.
Right-click on the box and select Preferences. On the Resources tab, turn on 3D acceleration.
Using virt-manager
If you are using virt-manager to test Debian on Lomiri in a virtual machine, you need to enable 3D acceleration. If you don't, then Lomiri and Lomiri's login screen won't start.
In the VM Details sidebar, click Display Spice. Set Listen Type to None and click the checkbox to enable OpenGL.
In the VM Details sidebar, click Video, set Model to Virtio and click the checkbox to enable 3D acceleration.
- Apply and restart the VM. If at any point you see warnings saying things like 'OpenGL only works with... 3D acceleration enabled', that means it didn't properly save.
Using a QEMU VM
See Lomiri/QEMUVM for details.
Lomiri Packaging for Debian
See Lomiri/Packaging overview page...