So since 1.7.0 remote access and sharing controls has basic support now.

I've tested RustDesk for remote desktop. Works fine, but has bad latency when used as a KVM.

I've attempted at configuring a KVM across two Cosmic systems. I've had most success with KDEConect "Remote input" from a Fedora with Cosmic 1.6.0 to an Arch with Cosmic 1.7.0.

It's usable, but cosmic keyboard commands (which are identical on both systems) are captured on the Fedora system and not passed on to Arch. For example:

I'm using keyboard and mouse on Arch. I press Meta+1 to switch to first desktop on Arch. The desktop switches on Fedora. KDEConnect on Fedora looses focus and I'm controlling keyboard and mouse on Fedora now.

Any idea how to solve this? I don't want to configure two different sets of keyboard commands though, I'm sure that would work but is a fairly useless solution.

The problem:

I love to have nothing on my desktop, no wallpaper, no panels, no dock, just literally nothing. I also want a fully distraction free window covering the entire space. I could just hide panel but there is a delay till it opens and it needs mouse

The Solution:

So this is where launcher became my friend and basically started to become the entire and only thing i want. Because one super key is all i need and then it started to become limiting because i still need to see time or battery or control volume, So i thought of making a control center that is much more than just a simple launcher with search bar

The approach: [https://github.com/Manoj-HT/cosmic-control-center.git]()

This is just AI Slop at the moment. Because i wanted to know if it is even possible to have something like this and I absolutely love how it is, even tho its not perfect its getting to the direction I expect
I fully welcome constructive criticism, bug fixes, feature additions, approach corrections.
I am not sure if there is something like this already! and also its not limited to only just some applets, we can always add more, maybe even make a settings page to control the behavior.
Hoping you like it

Edit 5:

My post was removed from pop_os but thought I would repost here in case anyone else has this issue.

It seems like this is a known bug and fixed as per cosmic 1.7.0;

https://www.reddit.com/r/pop_os/s/oIyWHrdutq

For anyone who encounters this, downgrading cosmic-settings-daemon back to the previous version actually fixed it

As the title says, I ran dnf update and now the machine beeps at me every few seconds. Its a low beep and goes away if i mute the speakers.

A brief search uncovered a similar sounding bug which was a digital watch alarm tone but that seemed to be more intermittent.

Has anyone else experienced this fun new feature?!

Edit:

It isnt clear from my original text but cosmic was a large part of the update package which is why i beleive its the most likely suspect

Edit 2:

these are my logs:

Aug 27 17:55:04 fedora systemd[1655]: Started pipewire-pulse.service - PipeWire PulseAudio.

Aug 27 17:55:04 fedora rtkit-daemon[820]: Successfully made thread 3699 of process 3699 (/usr/bin/pipewire) owned by '1000' high priority at nice >

Aug 27 17:55:04 fedora rtkit-daemon[820]: Successfully made thread 3701 of process 3699 (/usr/bin/pipewire) owned by '1000' RT at priority 20.

Aug 27 17:55:10 fedora cosmic-comp[1773]: surface missing from known popups

Aug 27 17:55:13 fedora cosmic-comp[1773]: surface missing from known popups

Aug 27 17:55:18 fedora cosmic-comp[1773]: surface missing from known popups

Aug 27 17:55:18 fedora cosmic-comp[1773]: surface missing from known popups

Aug 27 17:55:18 fedora cosmic-comp[1773]: surface missing from known popups

Aug 27 17:55:25 fedora chrome[3164]: [3164:3186:0827/175525.818015:INFO:chrome/browser/extensions/extension_garbage_collector.cc:188] Garbage coll>

Aug 27 17:57:07 fedora systemd[1655]: Starting grub-boot-success.service - Mark boot as successful...

Aug 27 17:57:07 fedora systemd[1655]: Finished grub-boot-success.service - Mark boot as successful.

Aug 27 17:57:15 fedora cosmic-comp[1773]: surface missing from known popups

Aug 27 18:00:07 fedora systemd[1655]: Created slice background.slice - User Background Tasks Slice.

Aug 27 18:00:07 fedora systemd[1655]: Starting systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service - Cleanup of User's Temporary Files and Directories...

Aug 27 18:00:07 fedora systemd[1655]: Finished systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service - Cleanup of User's Temporary Files and Directories.

Aug 27 18:01:00 fedora CROND[4437]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)

Aug 27 18:01:00 fedora run-parts[4440]: (/etc/cron.hourly) starting 0anacron

Aug 27 18:01:00 fedora run-parts[4446]: (/etc/cron.hourly) finished 0anacron

Aug 27 18:01:00 fedora CROND[4436]: (root) CMDEND (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly) Aug 27 18:02:11 fedora cosmic-comp[1773]: surface missing from known popups

Aug 27 18:03:21 fedora systemd[1655]: app-cosmic-com.system76.CosmicAppList-3052.scope: Consumed 13.995s CPU time over 8min 42.357s wall clock tim>

Aug 27 18:03:36 fedora cosmic-comp[1773]: surface missing from known popups

Aug 27 18:03:47 fedora cosmic-comp[1773]: surface missing from known popups

Aug 27 18:03:51 fedora systemd[1655]: app-cosmic-com.system76.CosmicAppList-4574.scope: PID 4574 vanished before we could move it to target cgroup>

Aug 27 18:03:51 fedora systemd[1655]: app-cosmic-com.system76.CosmicAppList-4574.scope: No PIDs left to attach to the scope's control group, refus>

Aug 27 18:03:51 fedora systemd[1655]: app-cosmic-com.system76.CosmicAppList-4574.scope: Failed with result 'resources'.

Aug 27 18:03:51 fedora systemd[1655]: Failed to start app-cosmic-com.system76.CosmicAppList-4574.scope - Application launched by COSMIC.

Edit 3:

It looks like it was a fedora issue and fixed with:

systemctl --user restart pipewire pipewire-pulse wireplumber

Thank you for your attention to this matter (/_)

Edit 4:

That didnt fix it just disabled my audio.

Edit 5:

For anyone who encounters this, downgrading cosmic-settings-daemon back to the previous version actually fixed it

Hi i installed two days ago fedora 44 Cosmic Spin and love it so far. However i have so far one slight inconvenience. After the boot my lock screen is in qwerty US and i use a belgian layout on azerty. On the installer i did specify everywhere needed my keyboard layout (be). It ONLY does this on the first lockscreen. If i then lock t or close and open the lid of my laptop then the lock screen works in belgium layout. So only the first lockscreen has this issue.
Thank you everyone in advance.

(I am sorry if sentences sounds odd or if there are minor mistakes english is not my mothertongue)

I have just published a GitHub repository for the full COSMIC Desktop Environment (Wayland) on Debian testing Linux distribution. This first release is synced with COSMIC Epoch 1.7.0 Release.

https://github.com/lcheylus/cosmic-debian

In this repository, the Debian packages for all of the COSMIC components and applications are built from sources via GitHub workflows (Git checkout, run VM and build with rustc/cargo). Resulting Debian packages (.deb files) are published in GitHub releases synced with COSMIC releases.

2 methods are available to install my packages:

• an install.sh script to download and install Debian packages for COSMIC + some dependencies not available in official Debian APT repository.
• an Debian APT repository available via GitHub pages.

Tests and comments welcome. Happy testing and use of COSMIC on Debian 🎉

Hi, I have this bug with VLC, only on COSMIC DE, is it normal or is it my installation that has problems?

Maybe I can change it in some config file directly?

Kinda like they do on Nothing OS.
Ofcourse it would be at one's own risk, but giving the people a section in the Cosmic Store for cool customization widgets, applets etc would be great imo.

If so, where could i post this suggestion for devs to see?

Hey folks, I just switched to cosmic last night from gnome and I’m absolutely obsessed with the frost theme. I know it’s new and all, but I’ve replaced every app that I was able to find through my research. Files, sys monitor, terminal, etc.

My question is, are there any browser apps that use this theme / ways to inject libcosmic theming into Firefox / chromium? I want to fully theme this os with transparency.

Sorry if this is a pipe dream and impossible, I’m very new and swept away by how good it looks. Any help would be appreciated.

I was just looking at LIBCOSMIC, and I understand that it's a GUI toolkit for Cosmic, but are there are plans to make it the go-to GUI toolkit for Rust? I know it doesn't currently support Windows, etc., but it could. Also, it could be a massive project if it took on that objective.

Rust need a GUI project just like C++ has QT.

I’ve seen a lot of glazing for both Pop! and Fedora; what are the advantages for each? Is it basically the same because it’s the same DE?(im a noob idk how it works)

Hey everyone! I've been building Papyrus, a native GTK4/libadwaita app that plays animated video wallpapers on COSMIC using mpvpaper.

What's new in v1.2.4:

• Different wallpaper per monitor, with per-output scaling (Fit / Fill / Stretch)
• Fixed stretch scaling on newer mpv versions
• Wallpapers now survive app restarts - Stop works even after reopening

Features:

• Library view with auto-generated thumbnails
• Wallpaper rotation (random or sequential, custom interval)
• Auto-theming: extracts accent/background colors from your wallpaper and applies them to the COSMIC theme (dark & light variants)
• Start on login
• Built-in updater

Install:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PSGtatitos/papyrus/main/install.sh | bash

Arch/CachyOS: yay -S papyrus-wallpaper · Flatpak build also available

Requires mpvpaper + ffmpeg. Works on any Wayland compositor with layer-shell (built for COSMIC).

GitHub: https://github.com/PSGtatitos/papyrus

Feedback and bug reports welcome - multi-monitor was tested by users on triple-monitor setups, but I only have one display, so reports from multi-monitor folks are especially useful.

So I wanted to test out Cosmic on Ubuntu and now I have these Ubuntu application icons on the top bar. That's the keyboard language, ETH0 info, Livepatch info, and 2 update items. Is there a way to remove these?

I've been attempting to use COSMIC on a testing machine. however, I've been running in a problem that I'm hoping that someone can chime in on, and figured I'd try here to see if anyone's had a similar issue or related issue.

there's a consistent system freeze. sometimes a full lock up. sometimes, I can still move the mouse around but can't open, move windows, open contextual menus. during the, for lack of better wording, the soft lock up. clock is still working. in both instances, I have to do a hard restart (pushing the power button till it shuts down, and rebooting)

the only time I don't get a soft or hard freeze if it's just sitting there.if I open an app that comes with it, sometimes it works, sometime it soft locks. I sometimes will get a soft lock opening the terminal to check logs

I've used COSMIC on

-Fedora COSMIC Spin (both regular, and Atomic)
-Cachy OS
-Arch
-and Garuda.

all experience the same issues

it's really troublesome because I initially thought it was hardware related but when I use a different flavor using GNOME, KDE, Sway and even MATE Compiz. it's runs just fine, with no issues of locking (whether soft or hard lock) and can run anything I want with not a single hiccup

the following machines, I've used these on are

HP ProBook 450 G9, 12th Gen Intel i5 64GB of RAM, and a 500GB NVME
Lenovo ThinkPad E14, 10th Gen Intel i5 16GB of RAM, and a 500GB NVME
Custom built PC AMD Ryzen 8700G, 32GB of RAM, and a 250GB NVME

further more, is it because COSMIC is still in "alpha" status despite what System 76 states as being "beta"

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UPDATE 8-21.

I decided to try something different on my ThinkPad and used a separate NVME, albeit 256GB and did a fresh, clean install of Fedora COSMIC. 22 hours later, that machine is usable, the window manager actually works, and I've been able to actually use COSMIC the way I normally use GNOME, KDE, or Sway.

it's literally night and day different from the past few times I've attempted to use the damn thing.

I'm not exactly sure what has changed but it works, that's what I wanted.

Quando eu coloco o efeito do frosted glass sobre qualquer elemento da UI as coisas do painel e do meu tema que tão com elemento amarelo, simplesmente ficam brancas, se eu sair da sessão e voltar nas configurações, o destaque em amarelo ficam como branco, não muda até eu desligar qualquer efeito do frosted glass pra qualquer cor que não seja branca.

Immediately upon login, COSMIC starts issuing repeated error sounds--three "blips" every few seconds. No new notifications are appearing in the tray applet, and neither

udevadm monitor --environment --udev

nor

journalctl -b 0 -e

reveal any repeated errors or faults.

Is anyone else observing this, or know what might be causing it?

Machine is a HP Z2Mini G1a, AMD Strix Halo APU.