COSMIC desktop experiment

[peebee]

https://system76.com/cosmic

I SFS loaded:
003-cosmic-current-20240811.xzm (67.6MB)

from:
https://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?t=11412

on top of LxPupSc64

and typed:
xwin start-cosmic

and imagine my surprise when a COSMIC desktop appeared.......

however, there were fundamental problems:
it was the wrong dimension at 1280*800 and this seemed to be the only dimension possible
and although my wireless mouse worked my wireless keyboard didn't

but lots of things did "work"

checkdeps -system
showed only 1 missing dependency:
/usr/libexec/xdg-desktop-portal-cosmic
libpipewire-0.3.so.0 => not found

/var/log/packages
gives a list of packages:
cosmic-applibrary-20240714-x86_64-1
cosmic-bg-20240731-x86_64-1
cosmic-comp-20240810-x86_64-1
cosmic-edit-20240714-x86_64-1
cosmic-files-20240810-x86_64-1
cosmic-greeter-20240802-x86_64-1
cosmic-icons-20240804-x86_64-1
cosmic-launcher-20240801-x86_64-1
cosmic-notifications-20240801-x86_64-1
cosmic-osd-20240714-x86_64-1
cosmic-panel-20240809-x86_64-1
cosmic-randr-20240731-x86_64-1
cosmic-screenshot-20240714-x86_64-1
cosmic-session-20240731-x86_64-1
cosmic-settings-20240807-x86_64-1
cosmic-settings-daemon-20240808-x86_64-1
cosmic-term-20240803-x86_64-1
cosmic-workspaces-epoch-20240805-x86_64-1
greetd-20240607-x86_64-1
launcher-20240805-x86_64-1
porteux-cosmic-utils-noarch-1
xdg-desktop-portal-cosmic-20240801-x86_64-1
xorg-server-xwayland-24.1.2-x86_64-1

Arch packages: https://archlinux.org/groups/x86_64/cosmic/

[Jasper]

Thanks for sharing this

I did just download the file and simply renamed it to *.sfs

Loaded it up 'on the fly' and it presents lots of applications and some desktop entries already.

I did not know what to do with the file extension so did not progress further .............tested on FossaPup64-95.

[peebee]

It appears that Cosmic is dependent on SystemD.....

However if you type:
cosmic-comp cosmic-session

in lxterminal
you do get a very small "desktop" (852*496) where both the mouse and keyboard work and screen capture works:

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[dimkr]

It appears that Cosmic is dependent on SystemD.....

... and it's Wayland compositor. There will be many problems with old GTK+ 2 applications, lots of overhead due to heavy use of Xwayland things that aren't Wayland-native won't work at all or won't work well. The best user experience you can provide is running the DE inside a X11 window, on top of X.Org.

[rockedge]

cosmic-comp cosmic-session worked in NoblePup64!

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