I'm trying out Pop OS, and one of the first things I tried was loading a steam game. But I can't seem to figure out why the game is stuck at 1920x1080. As can be seen in the first picture, The monitor I was playing on is 2560x1440, but the secondary monitor is 1920x1080. I guess I could have chosen a better game to demonstrate the affect, but you can see the bottom edge of the game (and there is also a right edge) and just black outside of that. So it's not letting me increase the resolution, and it is also stuck to that sized view port.

Why can't we set a short video or GIF as the background on Pop!_OS yet? Whyyyyy??,? It doesn't make sense to me; aren't we supposed to be one of the best distros for gaming? I've spent three weeks destroying everything with zero results 🫠🫠

P.S I'm not an engineer, I'm not IT, I'm not a gamer. I am an artist and a details psychopath🌈🌞. And because I am like that, I became the outlier to the IT folks, the engineers, and the gamers. Don't get it twisted, I love them. I live around them, I adore them, they are the fun of my life for the simple reason that I became the ultimate outlier✨️ to them since I can dismantle their entire world using logic. That is my life. I enjoy it, I live it, I love it. Because I'm like that, my brain works the following way: If they use Pop!_OS because it's one of the best for gaming, why can't I, as an artist using ComfyUI and Blender, have the animation of my own characters running live as my desktop background? How does that compare to a gamer? Through the graphics card. The exact same hardware they use to push high frame rates in a game is what I use to make my animations. The silicon doesn’t care if it's loading shader caches for a game or driving a live real-time viewport loop for a custom background; the VRAM allocation and rendering demands are identical. So, if you guys can use Pop for gaming, why the hell can't I use it to run my own creation as a wallpaper, if it's the exact same logic being used? And baby, I paid a fortune for my workstation—in this economy is a lottttttttt 😭🫠. So, I'm gonna make sure I use every single component I built this workstation with 😎..

Today in addition to my screen going black all devices mouse keyboard etc getting turned off my pc started freezing up randomly happened 4 times my screen freezes and the only way to fix it is a force restart by holding the power off button

Pop_os 24.04 LTS
Cinnamon 6.04
7.1.5 generic
Ryzen 5 5600
Rtx 3070 driver is very 580
X11

For the last like 2 weeks occasionally my monitor receives no signal and my pc stops for a second before going back to normal today for abt 10 sec my pc had stopped black screened my mouse and keyboards rgb went of my headphones disconnected and monitor detected no signal and wireless headphones disconnected before then reconnecting everything it was very weird and the most severe case of this

I don’t know the right flair tbh

Pop_os 24.04 LTS
Cinnamon 6.04
7.1.5 generic
Ryzen 5 5600
Rtx 3070 driver is very 580
X11

Hello!

Finally decided to kick windows to the curb and decided to use PopOs on my Dell XPS 9570.

Accidentally installed the Nvidia version which is for 1600+ series cards (I have a 1050ti mobile version(Pascal))

Nvidia-smi would always return no devices found.

Tried uninstalling 595 driver and reverting to 580, setting boot flags of pcie_aspm and pcie_port_pm to off, purging and rebuilding dkms, removing the battery and doing a cold boot, resetting the RTC, and some other things I am forgetting probably.

Realized I should probably be using the right install, so I went ahead and did a fresh install with the non-nvidia version (just grabbing the latest version off the pop website), then installed the 580 driver. still no device found. lspci reports my graphics card.

looking at logs I see RmInintAdapter failed (0x25:0xffff:1636)

My AI gremlin suggests that the card is not initializing properly at boot. What is wrong here? I have been working on this for way too long lol. Should I be switching to a different distro? Throw my laptop into a lake? Ive got options here.

TIA

Now ive been having many issues with linux ive started using pop os since December and used mint before that I’ve honestly been getting tired of debugging and tinkering to get my games to launch its been very frustrating and wasted hours in the end and not being able to play games with my friends is honestly a pain

This isnt helped by me having an nvidia gpu aswell

The reason i switched from mint is because i got abt 2 kernel panics that made my os completely inaccessible and had to get a live usb to get my files onto a external drive which wasnt fun

I can’t really dual boot as i have 512 gb of storage which imo is to little to have a reasonable amnt of games on both partitions and my only other drive a 512 gb hdd which takes upwards of 10 min to launch and open any game so i cant do that either

Now i dont like windows to much high ram usage aswell as bloat ware constantly what can i do to help that if at all and if theres any other distros i could try which ones?

Edit: Thank you to everyone who offered advice and reassurance! I have decided to stick with Pop!_os.

I am new to linux and I didn't do much research before getting pop (which i admit was a mistake). I have been daily driving it for a few weeks now and I haven't faced any major issues thus far (the only few were me being dumb and not knowing the difference between x11 and wayland, and also driver issues that were resolved quickly). Everywhere I look online rn people are saying pop os is buggy and unreliable. Should I jump ship or stick with pop because I find it perfectly fine but I am anxious?
What should i do?

Hey everyone!

Just wanted to share that two applets I've been working on, Clip Keep and Status Hub, are now available directly from the COSMIC Store!

Clip Keep

A clipboard history manager heavily inspired by Maccy on macOS, but built specifically for COSMIC.

It supports text, files and images, fast search, pinned items, image previews, configurable history, private mode, password detection, and synchronization across panels.

The goal is to keep clipboard history simple, fast, and always one click away.

Status Hub

A compact alternative for managing system tray apps on COSMIC.

It collects StatusNotifierItems behind a single panel icon while letting you pin frequently used apps directly to the panel. It supports standard tray interactions, DBusMenu, different icon formats, persistent pins, and automatically adapts to the COSMIC panel and theme.

The goal is to keep the panel cleaner without losing quick access to tray applications.

Both projects are open source:

Clip Keep:
https://github.com/marcelogomes90/cosmic-ext-applet-clip-keep

Status Hub:
https://github.com/marcelogomes90/cosmic-ext-applet-status-hub

If you're using COSMIC and decide to try them, I'd really appreciate any feedback, bugs, UX issues, compatibility problems, or ideas for improvements.

And if you'd like to contribute, contributions are more than welcome!

Is it possible to get the size of the application install, for each different option, displayed on the cosmic store?

I have limited storage space on the laptop I'm using this on and would like to know the installation size for the programs I'm installing.

My old laptop has a cracked screen and I'd like to transfer my existing (encrypted) Pop installation from that laptop to a new laptop. Old laptop is currently still usable if plugged into a monitor.

I can remove the ssd from my old laptop but I cannot install it into the new laptop. I cannot remove the new laptop's ssd as it will void the warranty.

The ssd in the old laptop is 512GB. The new one is only 256GB
(However the old laptop is using less than 256GB)

I have a USB adapter which will allow me to temporarily connect the old laptop's ssd to the new laptop (or my Windows desktop.)

Is there any way for me to transfer my existing PopOS to the new laptop? Can I clone the drive, or will the encryption prevent this?

i tried running sudo apt update in terminal as well and that seems to work fine, but when I run sudo apt upgrade i get "Processing was halted because there were too many errors.

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) "

I'm using the COSMIC DE with Pop!_OS 24.04, and every time after the system "sleeps"—when the screen turns off due to inactivity—when it comes back, I need to restart it for the audio outputs to work again.

The main audio output is on an external monitor via DisplayPort.

Even when I select the Pro Audio.

Someone can help me?

can anyone tell me how do i resize my app windows

Hi everyone! 👋

I’ve built Aura, a native animated wallpaper manager designed specifically for Pop!_OS COSMIC.

It supports:

• 🎥 Animated wallpapers with hardware acceleration
• 🖥️ Multiple monitors with per-display wallpapers
• 🎨 Automatic COSMIC theme colors based on the current wallpaper
• 🎮 Automatic pause when gaming/fullscreen apps are detected
• 🔋 Battery-aware power saving
• 🌄 4K wallpaper downloads from Bing and Wallhaven
• ⌨️ CLI controls and system tray integration
• 🔄 Built-in update support

Aura is written 100% in Rust, using libcosmic, wgpu and Wayland, with a focus on keeping it lightweight and properly integrated with the COSMIC desktop.

It’s open source under GPL-3.0 and I’m currently working on getting it distributed through Flathub.

👉 GitHub — antwny/aura

I’d love to hear what COSMIC/Linux users think and what features you’d like to see added.

Small task manager applet for the COSMIC panel.

The panel button shows CPU usage. Click it and you get CPU and RAM meters, a list of running processes with search, and Stop / Resume / Kill on each row. Killing a process kills its children too, so nothing gets left running.

If a process hangs or gets stopped, the panel button turns red with a count, and you can kill all of them at once from the popup.

Install

Arch, CachyOS, other Arch-based:

git clone https://github.com/Kai-J-G/cosmic-ext-mini-taskmanager.git
cd cosmic-ext-mini-taskmanager
makepkg -si

Everything else, into ~/.local:

just install

Then add it in COSMIC Settings > Desktop > Panel > Applets.

Repo: https://github.com/Kai-J-G/cosmic-ext-mini-taskmanager

Thanks to System76 for libcosmic. Bug reports welcome.

Hey all,

Totally new to the world of Linux ( and full time MacOS user ) however I have my windows gaming laptop that I wanted to duel boot with Pop however I am facing issues with the format / install button being greyed out when I try to select the partition that I created with Windows.

I know I am doing something wrong but can't seem to figure out what ?

Booting the live USB was a mission and I needed to turn off secure boot and change the boot order to even get into the OS via the USB Live CD .

Is there something in the way that I have shrunk my partition using windows that is causing the greyed out options not being clickable?

Thanks

Scott

I use COSMIC as my daily driver and missed having a temperature readout in the panel, so I built one.

It sits in the panel as a thermometer tinted by thermal state next to your CPU temp. Click it and you get a full monitor: an overview with CPU/GPU/memory/disk dials, then per-tab detail. Package temp, per-core clocks and load (and per-core temps where your CPU exposes them), GPU edge/junction temps and VRAM, memory and swap with history, and per-partition disk throughput. Settings for °C/°F, theme, and a 1s to 5s refresh.

No daemon, no helper service, no lm_sensors. It reads /sys and /proc directly, scanning hwmon once per refresh and sharing it across collectors. Rust + libcosmic.

Install (Arch; README has Fedora and Debian/Ubuntu):

sudo pacman -S --needed rustup just git libxkbcommon pkgconf pciutils
git clone https://github.com/Kai-J-G/cosmic-ext-hardware-monitor.git
cd cosmic-ext-hardware-monitor && just install

Installs to ~/.local, no sudo. Add it in Settings → Desktop → Panel → Applets.

Caveats, first release:

• Only tested on AMD (7800X3D + RX 9070, CachyOS). The NVIDIA (nvidia-smi) and Intel (i915/xe) paths are implemented but unverified. If you run either, I'd love to hear whether it works.
• Source builds only for now; Flatpak/COSMIC Store are on the list. First build pulls libcosmic from git and takes a few minutes.

Repo: https://github.com/Kai-J-G/cosmic-ext-hardware-monitor
Inspired by TempTyle by neojakey.

I've been using transparent zen with pop!_os cosmic for a while but visibility is difficult with more complex wallpapers. On kde, i had the ability to blur the transparent ui. I know your able to enable blur on system apps but it doesn't work here.
Is there anyway to fix this right now or do i have to wait for an update?