cosmic-overlay
Gentoo overlay with next generation
COSMIC DE. This DE is in
beta, but already usable for daily driving.
Caution
Overlay supports only systemd profiles. Contributions are welcome!
Install
Add and sync overlay
eselect repository add cosmic-overlay git https://github.com/aladmit/cosmic-overlay.git
emaint sync -r cosmic-overlayInstall COSMIC DE
Ebuilds follow releases from cosmic-epoch
emerge -av cosmic-base/cosmicAfter installation COSMIC should be available to choose in you login
manager(Wayland only).
COSMIC login manager
COSMIC has it's own login manager cosmic-greeter working on top of greetd.
Disable all other login managers like GDM and enable cosmic-greeter.
systemctl enable cosmic-greeter-daemon
systemctl enable cosmic-greeterKnown issues
Flatpak apps can't open files and directories
Issue: xdg-desktop-portal-cosmic#102
XDG portal doesn't support org.freedesktop.portal.OpenURI interface. Install
gtk and nautilus as a fallback.
sudo emerge -av sys-apps/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk gnome-base/nautilusNo icons in Files
Issue: cosmic-files#61
It happens when cosmic renders using opengl/gles. Force vulkan render by
setting systemd-wide environment variable.
/etc/env.d/99local
WGPU_BACKEND=vulkan
Then run sudo env-update and restart cosmic.