COSMIC
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![]() COSMIC running on a laptop. | |
Name | COSMIC |
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Graphics stack | cosmic-comp |
Toolkit | libcosmic (iced) |
In postmarketOS | |
Package | postmarketos-ui-cosmic |
Status | Available |
The COSMIC (Computer Operating System Main Interface Components) desktop environment. COSMIC is written entirely from scratch with no relation to current major desktop environments. It uses a custom toolkit called "libcosmic" that is based upon the iced toolkit and is written almost entirely in the Rust programming language.
About
system76 originally created COSMIC to replace their custom GNOME Shell extension collection also called COSMIC on their line of devices.
Installation
This user interface recommends systemd Using OpenRC instead of systemd might or might not work |
pmbootstrap init
- Select
cosmic
in the UI selection. - Install like normal.
See also
- https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/80719] Initial aports Merge Request
- [1] Initial pmaports Merge Request