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COSMIC Desktop Very Close To Alpha Release, Adds Compositor Multi-Threading Written by Michael Larabel in Desktop on 12 July 2024 at 04:01 PM EDT. 23 Comments DESKTOP System76 continues working vigorously on COSMIC, their Rust-written Linux desktop environment being written for Pop!_OS and to see availability on other Linux distributions as well. They are finishing up last minute changes before putting the flag on a COSMIC alpha release. System76 began their latest status update by nothing there are around 20 issues to be resolved before issuing the COSMIC alpha release. The hope remains that the COSMIC alpha version will be out before the end of July. Meanwhile some of the latest COSMIC changes include: - Support for styling inactive windows differently than the rest with "inactive colors" attribute. COSMIC inactive color screenshot from System76 - COSMIC's Input Settings has seen completed support for customizable shortcuts. - Super + Tab (or Alt + Tab) has been implemented for switching windows. - COSMIC Display Settings now allows for enabling display mirroring. - The panel overflow menu is being finished up for when there are too many apps/applets on a panel. - Various fixes for gaming issues. - Better performance for COSMIC Settings. - Compositor multi-threading by having cosmic-comp use multiple threads that can be particularly helpful for high refresh rate displays and multi-monitor setups. - Bug fixes for multi-GPU systems. More details on these changes via the System76 blog. 23 Comments Tweet Related News COSMIC Alpha Desktop Release Still Planned For Late July IceWM 3.6 Released With A Few New Features & Fixes Pop!_OS' COSMIC Desktop Finishing Up Work On App Store System76's COSMIC Working On Drag & Drop, More Compositor Improvements LXQt 2.0 Released For Qt6 Desktop Port, Greater Wayland Support System76 Now Planning For COSMIC Desktop Alpha Release In Late May About The Author Michael Larabel Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software. He can be followed via Twitter, LinkedIn, or contacted via MichaelLarabel.com. 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