Cosmic on Void

Attention

If you are using the Repository, please note, that the Domain was changed to repo.sys109.de Please Update your config. the Repository will be available, for a few weeks with the old and the new Domain. After that, the Repository will only be available through the new Domain

Table of Contents

• Install
  • Install via Repository
  • Install and build via xbps-src
• Enable Services
• List of all components
• Information about Cosmic Greeter
• Start Cosmic Desktop

Install Cosmic

Install via Repository

There is only a Repo for x86_64 Systems

1. Add Reposiotry

• glibc: echo 'repository=https://repo.sys109.de/repo/x86_64' | sudo tee /etc/xbps.d/59-cosmic.conf
• musl: echo 'repository=https://repo.sys109.de/repo/x86_64-musl' | sudo tee /etc/xbps.d/59-cosmic.conf

2. Update Package list: sudo xbps-install -S
3. Install single components with sudo xbps-install -S <package_name> or install all components, with sudo xbps-install -S cosmic-desktop-full
4. Optional, but recomended install firefox and sddm with sudo xbps-install -S firefox sddm

Install and build via xbps-src

1. git clone --depth 1 https://codeberg.org/Bella109/void-packages.git
2. cd void-packages
3. ./xbps-src binary-bootstrap
4. You can build single components with ./xbps-src pkg <package_name> or build every component with ./xbps-src pkg cosmic-desktop-full
5. Install the package with xi <package_name> or with xbps-install --repository hostdir/binpkgs <package_name>

   Note: The xi command is part of xtools

6. Optional, but recomended install firefox and sddm with sudo xbps-install -S firefox sddm

Enable Services

1. You need to enable dbus, if you enable it, you need to do a restart, before you can start cosmic
2. For all settings in Power&Battery you need to enable also the profile-power-daemon

Components

All packages:

• cosmic-applets
• cosmic-applibrary
• cosmic-bg
• cosmic-comp
• cosmic-desktop-full (Metapackage)
• cosmic-edit
• cosmic-files
• cosmic-greeter
• cosmic-icons
• cosmic-idle
• cosmic-launcher
• cosmic-monitor
• cosmic-notifications
• cosmic-osd
• cosmic-panel
• cosmic-player
• cosmic-randr
• cosmic-screenshot
• cosmic-session
• cosmic-settings
• cosmic-settings-daemon
• cosmic-term
• cosmic-wallpapers
• cosmic-workspaces-epoch
• xdg-desktop-portal-cosmic
• pop-launcher

Cosmic-greeter

I still didn't found a way, to get cosmic-greeter to working. it seems that elogind doesn't recognize it correctly. I don't know why it behaves that way and doesn't found a fix unfortunately. In the mean Time, I would recommend to use sddm or other Login manager

Start cosmic session

You can use sddm or other graphical Login Manager or you can start it manually:

1. Login as your user
2. Type start-cosmic

Note: This starts the whole cosmic-session for the user, as which you logged in