Updates on wallpapers, windows, scaling, and text handling from System76’s new desktop environment, COSMIC DE.

COSMIC updates regarding window resizing, wallpaper settings, notifications, fractional scaling, and localization

  • M4775@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Here’s a little taste of the pre-alpha COSMIC DE. Tiling is working great and stacking has been introduced. I’ve got four Alacritty windows in the left stack. Running from left to right a watch (ss) , the Helix editor, cmus player, and Felix file manager TUI. COSMIC is utilizing my ZSH config and autosuggestions along with autocompletions working great. The right stack is running Firefox, Librewolf Flatpak, Nautilus and COSMIC settings. Resize is working as expected too.

    • jahagwa@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yes!!! :D Loving what you have here! I’m curious tho, can we theme those stacked tabs at all or is that in the pipeline as a feature at some point?

      • M4775@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yes, I believe theming and color options are in the pipeline. I was aiming at showing how functional the desktop was already despite being pre-alpha. I love the little stack icons they’ve added though.

  • LostCrisis@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    How would I go about trying this?

    I’ve got Pop_OS! Installed on a laptop and I’ve gone and enabled Wayland and installed all the comic packages but it doesn’t really do anything.

    When I launch COSMIC from GDM there is no dock I cannot get the launcher to work so I can’t open the terminal basically none of the keyboard shortcuts work from GNOME.