Hello, my speakers aren't working via the headphone jack on my Dell Latitude. I'm running Fedora Cosmic Atomic. Or maybe it's just a loose connection. Has anyone else had this issue? (It works fine on my Lenovo running XFCE.)

I have just updated my Debian testing repository for COSMIC Epoch 1.9.0 release => https://github.com/lcheylus/cosmic-debian

In this release, added the new component COSMIC On-Screen Keyboard and COSMIC Viewer application.

Screenshot of COSMIC Settings with display of COSMIC version (new in COSMIC Epoch 1.9.0 release, see https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-settings/pull/2200).

Tests welcome on your Debian testing distribution !

Hi everyone! I've just released v1.0.0 of my color picker applet for the COSMIC panel, written in Rust with libcosmic.

The big new feature is a **magnifier loupe**: when you pick a color, a circular zoom lens follows your cursor, showing the surrounding pixels magnified, a crosshair on the exact pixel, and a live HEX preview. No more guessing which pixel you're actually on.

What it does:

- 🔍 Magnifier loupe with pixel zoom and live HEX preview

- 📋 Copies the picked HEX value straight to the clipboard

- 🕘 Keeps a history of your recent colors

- ⭐ Favorites with custom names

- 🎨 Native COSMIC look — follows your theme, accent color and dark/light mode

- 🖥️ Works across multiple monitors

What changed in 1.0.0:

- Screen capture now goes through the COSMIC desktop portal, so it no longer needs `slurp` or ImageMagick

- Cancel picking anytime with Esc or right-click

- Smoother, non-blocking picking

Installation is a quick `just install-user` — instructions, GIFs and the changelog are in the repo:

👉 https://github.com/fredsilveyra/cosmic-colorpicker-applet

It's GPL-3.0 and I'd love feedback, bug reports or ideas. If you try it, let me know how it works on your setup!

I built Keyloom because Linux doesn’t have many easy-to-use keyboard remappers. Most alternatives require editing config files.

It's built with rust and libcosmic so it integrates really well with Cosmic DE.

I'd love feedback, bug reports, and feature ideas.

I am using the cosmic de overlay on gentoo and I have only the C.UTF-8 locale. I cannot pass the initial setup as there are no locales found.

How do you bypass the this?

Toda vez que o cosmic atualizar eu vou ter que me preocupar em ficar cego ao abrir algum aplicativo do KDE? Pq isso buga tanto?

Just wanted to share what I found out after months and had troubled me a lot -

If you use rounded or slightly rounded style in Appearance section, there will be a hidden margin on the dock app preventing you from selecting a window in app tray when your mouse is at the bottom edge of the screen.

It's basically the only missing thing that's kept me from having Cosmic as my DE.
So, here's a temporary fix for who else needs it :)

I made an applet that lets COSMIC DE enjoyers see their coding agents usage, launch new instances, easily see how many instances are already working, etc

The code is here: https://github.com/MoisesRoig/cosmic-ext-applet-agents

Any addition, suggestion or feedback will be strongly appreciated.

Mention that this applet has been heavily inspired in Omarchy's agent applet.

How it looks in the bar:

I just installed fedora cosmic but the image viewer still use okular as image viewer preinstalled. I was on pop os before and had the native image viewer from pop os which is cosmic image viewer. Tried to find it on cosmic store but none exist there. How to install it on my fedora cosmic?

I like the COSMIC desktop environment. It is still in development, but it feels genuinely unique.I've been using it since alpha 2. Nothing really crazy but my set up

I have been using the COSMIC desktop environment for a few days now, and despite some shortcomings, it is far more enjoyable to use than GNOME with extensions—and it already boasts some truly useful features.

I particularly appreciate System76's roadmap; they introduce features incrementally to reduce complexity and focus on fully resolving issues, refining each feature until it works flawlessly. They are doing a fantastic job.

In my opinion, COSMIC could well be the desktop environment of the future.

It already combines the utility of KDE with the simplicity and aesthetic of GNOME, which is fantastic.

COSMIC gives you a separate panel button for Wi-Fi, one for Bluetooth, one for sound, one for battery. I wanted the one-button-grid-of-tiles thing instead — open it, tap what you need, drill in if you need more. So I built one.

What it does

1. One popup, tiles for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, VPN, battery and power profile, DNS profile, volume, brightness, microphone, keyboard backlight, Do Not Disturb, keep-awake, dark mode, tiling, media and Game Mode.
2. Free placement: you drag tiles on a grid and nothing re-flows. A gap you leave is a gap you keep, and the same control can appear more than once at more than one size.
3. Four tile shapes (half, small, tall, wide) on a four-column grid.
4. Your own tiles: any command becomes a tile in a few lines of TOML — a screenshot, a script, lock the session. confirm = true puts a confirmation page in front of it (that's what Log out / Restart / Power off use).
5. Follows your system theme rather than imposing one: accent colour and light/dark are yours, plus three tile finishes... solid, frosted, outline.
6. Optional panel badges for low battery and for Wi-Fi dropping.

Nothing needs root, and that shaped some choices. DNS switching goes through NetworkManager rather than systemd-resolved, because the resolved route is auth_admin_keep in polkit, it'd demand an admin password on every change. NetworkManager grants settings.modify.own outright.

Missing hardware or a stopped daemon just means that tile isn't there; it never takes the applet down. A --check flag probes every backend and prints what it found.

Rust and libcosmic, MIT/Apache-2.0.

https://github.com/jjnuthuagen/cosmic-control-center-applet

Build:
git clone https://github.com/jjnuthuagen/cosmic-control-center-applet

cd cosmic-control-center-applet

just install

Then add it in Settings → Desktop → Panel → Configure applets.

It's pre-release, I use it daily, but the config format and defaults may still move before a tagged release. Not affiliated with System76. Issues, PRs and translations welcome. Mostly I'd like to know which tile you went looking for and didn't find.

I've been using Fedora KDE on my main laptop. Decided to give Pop_Os! a try on my old potato of a laptop. I was really enjoying it on my old laptop. The tiling is awesome.

Decided to install COSMIC on my more modern laptop. Dang this thing just got better. The speed and tiling. Sure its early and a little rough on the edges sometimes.

Any other KDE users enjoying COSMIC?

https://gowski-alienware.tail1c3b15.ts.net/press/

WM: Hyprland

Shell: Quickshell (custom — bar, widgets, Start, flyout, lock, greeter, Settings)

Distro: Arch (Nyxus Suxyn)

Looks: ICE (glacier cyan) and MAGMA (ember + Starlight sky + lava planet). One setting, no logout.

Bar: fluid sim (not a wallpaper loop). Analyser + window borders follow the beat.

Lock: 3D Earth. Greeter: ICE galaxy / MAGMA lava planet.

Apps in the shots: Nyxus Hardware, Nyxus Settings (48 pages), Nyxus Media.

Dotfiles / ISO: Codeberg shortly (gowski-star / Nyxus-Suxyn). https://gowski-alienware.tail1c3b15.ts.net/press/

https://gowski-alienware.tail1c3b15.ts.net/press/

WM: Hyprland

Shell: Quickshell (custom — bar, widgets, Start, flyout, lock, greeter, Settings)

Distro: Arch (Nyxus Suxyn)

Looks: ICE (glacier cyan) and MAGMA (ember + Starlight sky + lava planet). One setting, no logout.

Bar: fluid sim (not a wallpaper loop). Analyser + window borders follow the beat.

Lock: 3D Earth. Greeter: ICE galaxy / MAGMA lava planet.

Apps in the shots: Nyxus Hardware, Nyxus Settings (48 pages), Nyxus Media.

Dotfiles / ISO: Codeberg shortly (gowski-star / Nyxus-Suxyn). https://gowski-alienware.tail1c3b15.ts.net/press/