Hi there, I understand that not all the current UBlue variants are receiving the attention they deserve from users, and that a lot of work is needed to support the ones that are already available. However, I was wondering if there are any concrete plans to introduce a Cosmic Desktop variant.
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Currently we have no plans for Cosmic.
Thanks for the reply, it was just out of curiosity after seeing that a few major distros have announced their plans to embrace the DE, nothing more. Keep up the great work, everybody.
Because the Cosmic Desktop sits “lightly” on an existing image, It is quite easy to provide a Cosmic Desktop login alternative on the login screen with your own Universal Blue custom image. Essentially you can take the stock Universal Blue template and add two lines of code to the build_files/build.sh
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dnf5 -y copr enable ryanabx/cosmic-epoch
dnf5 -y install cosmic-desktop
A working example with an Aurora base is at: GitHub - whelanh/aurora-cosmic: Universal Blue Aurora (latest) + Cosmic Session. You can change the base image in the Containerfile.
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Thanks, I’ll “Frankenstein” one of my machines to give it a try, but I’m very happy with my Aurora setup.
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