I switched to Pop!_OS earlier this year from Manjaro KDE. One feature that KDE had is that you could write a comment on any file by clicking Properties and going to the metadata. I assumed that this wrote the comment into the metadata of every file and that this would translate over to other distributions, but it doesn't appear to be the case.

I found this old thread from 2012 which said that KDE stores it's comments in ~/.kde/share/apps/nepomuk/. If that's still true today, I'm really worried now that all of that comment data I spent hours writing has been deleted along with Manjaro, because I had no idea that the data wasn't store inside the file itself, since it was always listed with the rest of the metadata for every file in it's properties. Is there no hope of me getting these comments back, or is there some way?

Update: Despite what that old thread seemed to imply, it turns out the comments do in fact get stored in metadata. After getting help in the comments, I found the easiest solution was to simply install Dolphin (KDE's file manager) into Pop!_OS, which allowed me to view the comments just as they were when I used KDE. For future readers, some other options that I didn't try that probably also work are:

• Load a Linux distro using KDE into a virtual machine on top of Pop!_OS and view comments that way
• Flash a distro like KDE Neon onto a live USB and view the comments that way
• Use the command getfattr FILENAME -n user.xdg.comment to view the comment data within the Pop! terminal (I didn't get this working, but this was suggested to me)

So just got my computer switched over to Pop! OS.

When I open the Pop Shop, the installers don't give me an option to change the location of the app installs. I have 4 disks, 2 nvmes, 2 hard disks. I would prefer to install some of my apps to the 2nd nvme, which I have mounted to /Apps. Mainly the games I will play, along with Stream and Lutris.

Would I need to install from the terminal with apt or nala? I installed nala because it looks cleaner, but we'll see.

Hi all, I've been running the latest Pop_OS 22.04 LTS, and recently discovered all the new cosmic apps from the upcoming Cosmic DE. They are seriously impressive in both UI/UX and performance, but I got updates to all of the cosmic apps yesterday, and now when i try and launch any of them, they simply hard lock my computer, forcing a hard reboot to recover.

I noticed a few recent reports of similar behavior over on Reddit, but Reddit 'tis a silly place, so I'm posting to Lemmy instead.

Since I cannot copy/paste any errors, i took a picture and hand typed out what happens when i launch cosmic-store from a terminal. It appears to be a json-ish error.

ERROR winit::platform_impl::platform] X11 error: XError {
    description: "BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)",
    error_code: 8,
    request_code: 149,
    minor_code: 4
)

os info:

kernel: 6.9.3-76060903-generic

distro:
DISTRIB_ID=Pop
DISTRIB_RELEASE=22.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=jammy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS"

There are no updates available via sudo apt update && apt upgrade as of time of this post, and this is from an xorg session.

~$ ps -e | grep -E '(Xorg|wayland)'

   2207 tty2     00:00:12 Xorg

I wanted to build and use cosmic epoch on my void linux system with seatd, but i could not find build and install instructions on the project's README.md. Although it did have installation instructions for PopOs, fedora and arch based distros. If someone has already installed it, can you please tell me if it is possible to install it on void with seatd and how do I install it...

Worth watching

I have written a calculator in Rust and libcosmic, the design is copied from gnome-calculator; I discovered 2 things:

1. I don't like working on UIs.
2. I have no idea how to transform

cosmic::widget::button::Builder

to

cosmic::widget::Button;

this code would be so much cleaner if I could return a button::standard() from a function.

The source code.

I’m not super familiar with the differences between x11 and Wayland, but I’ve been experiencing some screen tearing in games with x11 that I don’t remember experiencing in the past. I’ve heard Wayland is more performant, but does that mean anything when gaming?

I am using an AMD gpu with just out-of-the-box settings. No additional drivers or tinkering.

After updating system76-power yesterday, today charge thresholds aren't working. Running system76-power charge-thresholds gives this:

org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed: Not running System76 firmware with charge threshold support

Anything I can do besides wait for a fix?

I've been trying to create a new cpuset to run some programs with a reduced set of cpu cores, but I seem to be fighting with something my system is already doing because the instructions from the kernel manual don't work. I find cpuset is already mounted, but when I create a directory in /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset it does not end up with cpuset.cpus in it. It seems cpusets are aleady being used by something else, so not sure how I'd go about this?

Manual with step by step tutorial: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.html

The only thing that is stopping me from daily driving the pre-alpha is the fact that I can't get my VPN to connect.

Troubleshooting steps so far:

• Everything suggested on the notification in the screenshot, including restarting, signing out, and trying other servers.
• Using the Advanced Network Configuration app as suggested by @mmstick in a Reddit post. Tried importing a Proton VPN configuration and entering the OpenVPN info manually.

It connects just fine in the current Gnome DE, and I don't have enough know-how to understand what's not working in COSMIC.

back in March, I saw someone posted about this.. now that few weeks had passed, what was the announcement? Did I miss something?

there was no updates in last week. I'm sure the team is working hard on the cosmic de and other refinements.

👍

Hi, I recently installed pop!_os on my shiny new gaming desktop and I'm loving it so far. But I'm now trying to get some games to work (mostly Helldivers 2 right now, which does work after a fresh install, but then freezes on a blackscreen with all subsequent launches. I'm assuming this is due to that awful kernel level anti cheat somehow)

Long story short, according to the fine folks over at protonDB, gamescope can help. But I can't find it on the pop shop or with apt-get. If anyone can point me to some trusted PPA I can use, or the dependencies I need to build it from source, that would be very appreciated (or even, just how to find out what dependencies I am missing. I lost my linux-fu after a long period of using Windows exclusively but I'm not a complete noob)

Additional infos : I used the Nvidia installer, 550 drivers (I have the RTX 3080 Ti), have the Nvidia drm modeset enabled, and I'm using the pop_os Steam package. ~~I also enabled "force full composition pipeline" in Nvidia settings~~ actually I just disabled it because it was causing issues with some other games that were running fine without it

My laptop is running modern hardware with NVME drive and has 64GB of RAM. Running Pop!_OS 22.04 with Gnome/Wayland.

When I launch the cosmic-store or cosmic-edit (for example) via command line or launcher, each takes about 25 seconds for its app window to load. Loading the Pop Shop in the same fashion takes less than 1 second.

I saw a few lines indicating files couldn't be opened, and thought at first maybe my ulimit was set incorrectly, but there is plenty of headroom on my user (soft limit: 4096, hard limit: 1048576).

I do see a handful of logs that look questionable:

May 04 07:50:59 rosie systemd[2109]: app-gnome-com.system76.CosmicEdit-17126.scope: Couldn't move process 17126 to requested cgroup '/user.slice/user-1000.slice/[email protected]/app.slice/app-gnome-com.system76.CosmicEdit-17126.scope': No such process
May 04 07:50:59 rosie systemd[2109]: app-gnome-com.system76.CosmicEdit-17126.scope: Failed to add PIDs to scope's control group: No such process
May 04 07:50:59 rosie systemd[2109]: app-gnome-com.system76.CosmicEdit-17126.scope: Failed with result 'resources'.
░░ Subject: Unit failed
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: http://www.ubuntu.com/support
░░ 
░░ The unit UNIT has entered the 'failed' state with result 'resources'.
May 04 07:50:59 rosie systemd[2109]: Failed to start Application launched by gnome-shell.

What could be causing the cosmic apps to load so slowly?

COSMIC Tweaks gives you granular control over everything you can do in COSMIC.

This app aims to help you tweak settings that are not currently available in COSMIC Settings.

Here's what the app can do so far:

• ✨ Color schemes: Save your current theme and import other themes to use anytime you want.

• ⚙️ Panels: Fine-tune your panel padding and spacing.

COSMIC Tweaks is just getting started, and more features are on the way!

Let me know what you think in the comments below!

RUST Cosmic Desktop on Pop!_OS will be also available on Asahi Linux, Fedora and on NixOS as a Nix Package in the main repo.. Let's talk about the quality o...

Official System76 Blog

Hey,

Lately there was a post on reddit about request for WebApp Manager for Cosmic desktop.

Few months ago I was working on WAM Rust so "web app manager" written in Rust and Iced-rs. Yesterday I decided to rewrite it to libcosmic so it will looks nicer and integrate with Cosmic desktop better.

The result is awesome. I'm happy how it looks.

This is very first working version of this app, so it's working with mainly mainstream browser and maybe there will be some fuckups. However I will try to do my best to finish it so it will work better and just like Linux Mint's "WAM".

If you are interested in this app, you can follow my progress on github: https://github.com/elevenhsoft/cosmic-wam

Have a nice day and wait patiently for Cosmic desktop :)

p.s.

Sorry for copy paste from reddit. It just faster to do than uploading again and again :)