What are you guys using as an alternative to Cosmic Files?

While Cosmic Files looks clean and is definitely passable, I still unfortunately find it lacking in some aspects. It's oftentimes not a smooth experience as I feel that there's lag to a lot of actions, and also when I'm searching in drives or folders with TBs of data that it takes ages to load (even when it works fine in other file managers). There's also the lack of a computer overview of one's drives.

Hi there i just installed pop os on i5-8265U,32ram/SSD its a dell laptop with one GPU intel integrated one. But it feels so laggy! Mouse cursor feels very laggy while moving around screen, moving windows its very slow. Everything seems slow and not smooth at all. Are you all having the same things or i should change the distro at all. Fresh install cosmic, feels like running windows on celeron!

Everything else works as it should.

I'm on Pop 24.04. When I try to open an image, nothing happens.

Trying to start cosmic-viewer from the command line, I get "Illegal instruction (core dumped)".

CPU: Intel Pentium Silver N5000

I’ve recently started having sleep/suspend issues on Pop!_OS 24.04, and I’m trying to figure out whether one of the recent updates may have caused it.

The system was fine before but started noticing problems putting the computer to sleep after the updates.. only screen goes off and never comes back.

Has anyone else experienced sleep/suspend or wake-up problems on Pop 24.04 after recent updates?

Intel i7 14700K

64GB RAM

AMD 6800 XT

I have pop os running for a plex server but when the display goes to sleep it will not re awaken without turning the computer off and then back on.

before someone flame me if this was posted before, I tried reading around any previous reddit post out there regarding this.

I can't use the middle mouse click in various games, darksiders 2, witcher 3, etc.

-I can't use the same sticky scroll like i had it in windows and the button doesn't work in any game on Pop_OS 24.04 (for me at least)
-I tried installing gnome tweaks and disabled the paste option for the middle mouse click.
-I tried using PROTON_NO_RAW_INPUT=1 (something was suggested by brave search)
-Under X11 applications compatibility i tried "Optimize for for gaming and full screen apps".
-I've tested several different mouse vendors and models. (current one is a logitech M170)
-I tried using gamescope to run the game.
[gamescope] [Info] console: gamescope version 3.16.19-1~24.04.3 (gcc 13.3.0)

user@pop-os:~$ uname -r
7.1.5-76070105-generic
user@pop-os:~$ ls /dev/input/js*
ls: cannot access '/dev/input/js*': No such file or directory

why won't the button work?
Is this a steam problem or a pop_os? but if it's a steam problem why won't the button work on popos either?

To all the people that have been using my app and downloaded it via the COSMIC Store. You may have noticed that the version on the COSMIC Store is way outdated and i haven't been supporting it. I just officially ended the support for it so don't expect any updates on that. If you want you can download it via the AUR package with paru or yay or download it via the .deb package in the releases tab of the repo. Both of those stay up to date with every release so the latest updates go there.
Note: If you decide to go with the .deb when i release a new update it will give you a button to press and will redirect you to GitHub so you can install the latest package. If you go with the install script listed in the README of the repo the same button will appear but you click it once and it will tell you to restart the app so the changes can take effect automatically.

GitHub Repo: https://github.com/PSGtatitos/papyrus

Hey folks,

Very new to Linux - so please go gently! After playing around with Mint OS, I've installed POP OS. I want to install Steam, so I've found the Steam Installer on Cosmic Store, but when I hit install, the progress bar flashes for a second and then vanishes, and I get no password prompt as usual.

I have no idea how to troubleshoot this, and am getting overwhelmed trying to search online for answers, so any help for a complete newbie, would be greatly appreciated. :)

I have a separate partition from my OS part used for a media library; the options set for it in Disks are 'user session defaults', mount at system startup is checked, and nosuid, novdev,nofail,x-gvfs-show are the parameters. Consistently in order to get any media player like fooyin, gapless, lollypop etc to play anything in the library, I have to click inside the file explorer in that partition before I can access the files on those media players, as if its not mounted yet.

I'm on an HP laptop with hybrid graphics (Intel HD 530 + NVIDIA GTX 960M) running Pop!_OS 24.04 with COSMIC. When I plug in an HDMI monitor, the system hangs: the second screen freezes, apps crash, and cosmic-comp spikes to 99-100% CPU. Unplugging HDMI keeps things stable.

What I've tried:

• Installed nvidia-driver-470 (nouveau was even worse). Driver loads fine, nvidia-smi works.
• Tried setting COSMIC_RENDER_DEVICE=renderD129 (my NVIDIA render node). It didn't propagate to cosmic-comp, and even when I manually exported it, it didn't fix the CPU issue.
• Restored from Timeshift to clean state (nouveau, no NVIDIA driver). System is stable now but HDMI is still unusable.
• cosmic-comp is also at ~50% CPU even without HDMI connected.

Key logs:

• cosmic-comp[2025]: Failed to render texture ... import for wrong devices DrmNode ... modifier: I915_y_tiled_ccs — texture import failure between Intel and NVIDIA.
• thread 'surface-HDMI-A-2' panicked at 'called Option::unwrap() on a None value': src/shell/mod.rs:1368 — compositor panic on HDMI thread.

My questions:

1. Is this a known COSMIC bug? I saw GitHub issues about high CPU with hybrid NVIDIA on external monitors, but they seemed to be about performance, not full system crashes.
2. Should I switch to Xorg session as a workaround? Does COSMIC even have an Xorg option, or would I need to use a different DE?
3. Is there any reliable way to get HDMI working on this hardware, or should I just accept that COSMIC Wayland + hybrid NVIDIA + external monitor is broken right now?

Any help appreciated. I've been going in circles trying drivers and env vars.

After a recent update, they added a popup on screen that shows your new langue after you change your keyboard input.

The problem is that popup appears at the bottom of the screen, right on top of my textbox, preventing me from seeing what I am writing until it disappears.

Where can I find the config file for the keyboard input switching, so I can disable that popup from there?

Hello, I've been running battle.net for a while through steam and latest ge proton with no issues. However, yesterday they added an upcoming maintenance notification to the login window and now that freezes and is un-clickable.

I've done a whole bunch of troubleshooting and have found nothing that works. I've even tried switching to Faugus launcher.

The only way I've been able to move past the login is by adding PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 as a launch option. That allows the login to proceed, but the bnet process then crashes without loading the launcher.

I've read that this problem may be due to how cosmic renders certain chromium based apps and loads Windows in the background and uninteractable, but I haven't found an actual solution.

Anyone have any ideas?

**EDIT**

I seem to have fixed things. I've ended up doing everything under the sun, I removed battle.net completely, changed from the Faugus flatpak to the system installed version, tried all kinds of proton versions, etc. The thing that worked was putting my laptop into airplane mode and then launching BNET. that gave me an option to start offline. After the launcher loaded I was able to change the setting to disable hardware acceleration in bnet and then I got back online and was able to sign in. I also had to use WINE_SIMULATE_WRITECOPY=1 as a launch option.

I am now playing WoW again. Thanks!

Hi, first of all yes, I did search the forum for similar topics, but most of them are either 5 to 7 years old and only concern Gnome, or they include unofficial solutions which sometimes work, sometimes not. I am also aware of waycorner but what about an out-of-the-box solution coming with the distro? Even if not included with it, please at least add an app in the COSMIC Store, please, please, please! I love the OS and that's more or less the only thing that bothers me while using it - no way to just flick my mouse to show all windows (Workspaces) and quickly switch tasks.

I use dual boot, using ReFind, after doing

`sudo pop-upgrade release upgrade -f`

It finished downloading all the packages, asked for a restart, made it, and after selecting the right kernel, it hanged in a black screen,

Forced a ctrl+alt+del and the system restarted but many packages were failing and didn't upgrade.

`apt install -f`

Will ask to autoremove to delete the old packages (from 24.04) while not installed the newer one !

Hopefully, I did a backup just before upgrading .... And now I am restoring ...

NB: ReFind was wiped, the system reverted into old Grub (installed it long ago from Windows...), and now that everything was restored using Timeshift, I reinstalled ReFind (refind-install) and everything went back to normal (to 24.04)

So I just got the new System76 Adder Pro (addp6) Laptop, this is my first time using the new COSMIC Desktop as well as my first time owning a System76 Product.

The build quality of the Laptop seems to be very sturdy and high quality, and everything is working perfectly fine out of the box.

The COSMIC Desktop is stunning, it does seem to be a bit limited when it comes to configuration, but hopefully that will get better as time goes on as this DE is still a work in progress.

I really like that the Tiled/Floating mode is PER workspace so I can have workspace 1 be floating and workspace 2 be tiled, and I can always change that on the fly.

I am looking forward to the development of the COSMIC DE as this honestly might be my favorite DE and daily driver.

I see many reddit posts regarding Pop!_OS 26.04 , i am currently using 24.04 , how do I upgrade to 26.04 , I don't see an iso in the system 76 website , please help!

Hi all, I'm new to desktop Linux (recently switched from Windows) and I'm trying to get hybrid graphics to behave the way it does on Windows. Looking for advice from people with similar setups.

**My setup**

- ASUS laptop \Tuf A15 Ryzen 7 7445hs, AMD Radeon 740M iGPU + NVIDIA RTX 3050 Mobile (4GB)

- Pop!_OS 24.04 with COSMIC, kernel 7.1.5

- NVIDIA driver 580.173.02

- GPU mode is handled by supergfxctl. `supergfxctl -s` only lists [Integrated, Hybrid] (no MUX or dGPU-only mode)

- `system76-power graphics` says switching isn't supported on this device

**What I already fixed**

The RTX wasn't detected at all (nvidia-smi failed, nothing in lspci). The cause was supergfxd set to Integrated and the ASUS firmware value dgpu_disable = 1. After setting dgpu_disable to 0 and running `supergfxctl -m Hybrid` plus a logout, everything works: nvidia-smi shows the card, PRIME offload with `__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia` renders on the RTX, and Vulkan lists both GPUs.

**What I want**

1. Ideally: the RTX is used when the charger is connected and the iGPU when on battery, with no logout or reboot.

2. If that isn't possible: a way to turn the dGPU fully on and off at will without logging out.

3. At minimum: an easy way to run apps and Steam games on the RTX without starting each one from a terminal.

**What I've learned so far**

- Changing between Integrated and Hybrid makes supergfxd restart the display manager, so it needs a logout.

- In Hybrid mode the RTX should suspend itself when idle.

**My questions**

- Is there any supported way on an ASUS laptop with COSMIC to do AC/battery GPU switching without logout? Has anyone made udev rules or scripts for this that actually work?

- Does COSMIC have a "launch with discrete GPU" option in the app launcher? If not, what's the cleanest way to set GPU offload for Steam or other apps globally?

- How can I confirm the RTX really powers down when idle (I was going to check /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/power/runtime_status)?

Happy to post logs or command output if useful. Thanks!

Hey all,

With the 26.04 release, is there any chance of going back to (or making available) an LTS-style kernel? The rolling kernel has been nice, particularly through 22.04 and 24.04's long lifespans, but i wonder if it would be less necessary going forwards.

For context, over the past year I have had break due to kernel upgrades:

- my mouse, because it's a logitech and there's a heap of churn in this area

- the whole desktop env refused to come up for a couple of days due to some upstream bug (that was hotfixed quickly)

- WiFi broke in June for about a month

- For around a month at the start of the year, my lappy was hanging on s3 resume due to some WiFi firmware thing i believe

None of the above is System76's direct fault, it's just the nature of life with fresh upstream kernels. The end result is not great though: my systems sometimes go kaput and all i can do is whinge and wait. Frankly if I wanted to live on the bleeding edge like this I'd be on Arch.

So - is there any appetite for a more stable kernel release model now we are getting back up to speed with Ubuntu bases? Particularly with S76's focus on workstations and productivity work - on my gaming box at home then I can shrug and go do something else, but particularly for my work machines I really would value a more stable kernel.

My system76 laptop running 24.04 currently has the 595.84 nvidia driver. I'd like to upgrade to at least the 610.43 driver to resolve issues while gaming.

apt upgrade shows everything is current but apt list -a nvidia-driver-* shows noble-updates up to 610.57. Is there a reason why it's stuck at 595.84? Can I safely install 610.57 manually and if so how?

Full disclosure I got that apt list command from google and I may not be understanding the output fully.

I recently installed PopOS (NVidia) on my Acer laptop with an external display (not mirrored). I switched to GNOME due to some preferences over COSMIC, but have seen:

1. Alt+Tab activity works but only kindof (no popup that I swore was there)

2. My external display continues to work as expected but at somr point my main laptop monitor freezes and does not update at all

Sorry if already known. I’ve seen some people saying that they’ve already upgraded to the latest release, but I haven’t done that yet.

TIA.