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COSMIC is a desktop environment developed in the Rust programming language, using the iced cross platform GUI library for Rust, and Smithay as building blocks for its compositor, cosmic-comp. Cosmic-comp is comparable to smithay's own anvil compositor demonstration, just like the Wayland project uses Weston as demo compositor.

COSMIC was primarily developed for use in the Pop!_OS distribution.

In Progress

COSMIC support in nixpkgs is still in development. You can follow progress via the tracking issue.

There is a flake to setup COSMIC on NixOS.

COSMIC Packages

While the whole desktop is not configured many packages are available in nixpkgs already. You can search for packages with a query similar to this one https://search.nixos.org/packages?query=cosmic&from=0&size=1000&sort=relevance&channel=unstable. Note that not all of the results will be part of the COSMIC desktop.

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 COSMIC is a desktop environment developed in the Rust programming language, using the iced cross platform GUI library for Rust, and Smithay as building blocks for its compositor, cosmic-comp. Cosmic-comp is comparable to smithay's own anvil compositor demonstration, just like the Wayland project uses Weston as demo compositor.
-== Installation ==
+COSMIC was primarily developed for use in the [https://pop.system76.com/ Pop!_OS] distribution.
-Currently packaged in nixpkgs master/unstable are below, one way to install them is to use a configuration file like this:
+== In Progress ==
-<syntaxhighlight lang="nix">
+COSMIC support in nixpkgs is still in development. You can follow progress via [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/259641 the tracking issue].
-{ config, pkgs, ...}:
+There is a [https://github.com/lilyinstarlight/nixos-cosmic flake] to setup COSMIC on NixOS.
-let
+== COSMIC Packages ==
-  unstable = import
-    (builtins.fetchTarball https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/tarball/master)
-    # reuse the current configuration
-    { config = config.nixpkgs.config; };
-in
-{
+While the whole desktop is not configured many packages are available in nixpkgs already. You can search for packages with a query similar to this one https://search.nixos.org/packages?query=cosmic&from=0&size=1000&sort=relevance&channel=unstable. Note that not all of the results will be part of the COSMIC desktop.
-  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
-    unstable.rustc
-    unstable.just
-    unstable.cosmic-icons
-    unstable.cosmic-settings
-  ];
-}
-</syntaxhighlight>
-You would add it to your main configuration.nix file in /etc/nixos/ like this:
+[[Category:Desktop environment]]
-<code>
-   imports =
-       [
-           ./hardware-configuration.nix
-           ./unstable.nix
-       ];
-</code>
-then rebuild:
-<code>
-sudo nixos-rebuild switch
-</code>
-=== COSMIC Comp ===
-https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/nixos-unstable/pkgs/applications/window-managers/cosmic/comp
-=== COSMIC Panel ===
-This also includes the Dock:
-https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/nixos-unstable/pkgs/applications/window-managers/cosmic/panel
-=== COSMIC Applet ===
-https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/nixos-unstable/pkgs/applications/window-managers/cosmic/applets
-=== COSMIC Settings ===
-https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/applications/window-managers/cosmic/settings
-=== COSMIC Icons ===
-https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/a10c1225467f721dedbaaa260c006d6d15c8c40b/pkgs/by-name/co/cosmic-icons