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 [1]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'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 [2]System76 blog .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Alpha-Next-Month

[2] https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-july-2024