The names of the actual executables are unity-system-compositor and unity8, respectively. Mir is the name of the library that does the work. XMir is the name of the Xorg driver/patches that allow Xorg's server to talk to the unity-system-compositor rather than directly to the hardware.
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Re: On names, again.
Date: 2013-08-22 11:43 pm (UTC)(Michael Hall here, why doesn't dreamhost accept my Launchpad OpenID? I tried to do the right thing and register.)