http://askubuntu.com/questions/360598/13-10-black-borders-black-terminal
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mir/Installing
Removing the system-compositor-testing PPA
Should you have been using the system-compositor-testing PPA you will have to remove the PPA and it's content from your system prior to installing XMir from archive.
$> sudo apt-get update
$> sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
$> sudo ppa-purge ppa:mir-team/system-compositor-testing
$> sudo rm /etc/apt/preferences.d/50-pin-mir.pref
Then, follow "Installing from Archive".
Installing from Archive
Prior to landing Mir and related packages in the Ubuntu archive, we offered XMir via the system-compositor-testing ppa (ppa:mir-team/system-compositor-testing). As of August 9, 2013 XMir can be installed directly from archive via
$> sudo apt-get update
$> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
$> sudo apt-get install unity-system-compositor
$> sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop-mir
$> sudo restart lightdm
Verifying that unity-system-compositor is running
You can check in 3 ways whether unity-system-compositor is running:
$> ps aux | grep unity-system-compositor
$> grep -i xmir /var/log/Xorg.0.log
$> ls -l /var/log/lightdm/unity-system-compositor.log
Removing unity-system-compositor
Temporarily
If you want to temporarily switch back to using X.org on your system, run following commands:
$> sudo vi /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/10-unity-system-compositor.conf
and add a comment to the second line:
[SeatDefaults]
#type=unity;xlocal
and restart lightdm
$> sudo restart lightdm
If you want to enable XMir back again, you simply remove the comment:
[SeatDefaults]
type=unity;xlocal
and restart lightdm
$> sudo restart lightdm
Permanently
In order to remove unity-system-compositor permanently from your system, run following command:
$> sudo apt-get remove unity-system-compositor
$> sudo restart lightdm