Cosmic DE

benjo · 27 Apr 2025 at 09:08

I see Fedora 42 has a Cosmic spin now, which is surprising considering how new Cosmic is. Anyone tried it?

santa · 27 Apr 2025 at 13:14

Not the new spin, but I've been running cosmic installed on the standard gnome fedora 41 (now 42) for over two months now and I'm happy with it. Fedora just updated to alpha 7 so we'll see if it's fixed the minor issues I had. The bluetooth widget hasn't failed since that one time it did, will let the battery drain soon and see if it notifies on low battery, the file explorer searches upon typing now which is great and was the only real usability niggle I had relative to nautilus (prior version you had to click the magnifying glass first). My use case is heavily minimalist so YMMV, but the experience has been near-flawless.

benjo · 27 Apr 2025 at 14:38

I’m planning a fresh install soon so I’ll give it a try. I’m using a very vanilla Fedora 41 Gnome install at the moment but with Dolphin file manager installed as Gnome Files isn’t great.

santa · 28 Apr 2025 at 14:06

Let the battery drain and it didn't notify, in fact there have been no notifications at all for a while I just didn't notice. It could be a consequence of installing cosmic over gnome (notification server still hooked into gnome somehow?). I can get a notification if I intentionally crash the cosmic-screenshot program (by cancelling mid-interactive execution without saving a screenshot, for whatever reason it panics on exit in that case), also using the tool notify-send to generate my own notification works.

notify-send working seems to rule out a bad notification server setup (according to this https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Desktop_notifications ). So I'm not sure what's going on. Regardless, notifications might be iffy. If you try the spin it'll be interesting to see how notifications behave there.