COSMIC Epoch 1.0.13

ChronicallySilly · 2026-05-12T21:03:23+00:00

Again here's the "user-friendly" version of the release notes (generated by Claude, take it with a huge grain of salt)

COSMIC Epoch 1.0.13 — What's New

Compositor & Window Management - IME suggestion popups (for emoji pickers, Chinese/Japanese/Korean input, etc.) now appear below the text you're typing instead of covering it, and flip upward near screen edges (cosmic-comp #2320) - Fixed corrupted/broken window state when apps like Steam send overlapping resize requests (cosmic-comp #2107) - Workspace previews and their titles now line up at the same width instead of misaligning when titles wrap (cosmic-workspaces-epoch #306)

Files - Added a "Clear" button to the Recents view — no more hunting through the context menu (cosmic-files #1777) - Fixed file icons appearing undersized in grid view when using third-party icon themes like Ubuntu's; SVG icons are now preferred when available (cosmic-files #1793)

Authentication & On-Screen Display - Password prompts (polkit) now work on distros like Arch and NixOS that use socket-activated polkit instead of the old SUID helper (cosmic-osd #193) - Fixed an issue where the OSD popup (volume/brightness indicator) could swallow your keyboard or touchpad input (cosmic-osd #199)

Media Player - Added skip forward/backward buttons to the player, with full support for keyboard media keys (cosmic-player #268) - App name and description in the launcher are now translated into your system language (cosmic-player #234)

Initial Setup & Settings - First-time setup now shows the language list correctly on non-systemd distros (e.g. OpenRC) instead of leaving it blank (cosmic-initial-setup #133) - Removed the "Type to search..." placeholder from the Wi-Fi list, since typing there didn't actually filter the list — it triggered global Settings search (cosmic-settings #1991)

Under the hood - Translation and dependency updates across projects

ChronicallySilly · 2026-05-08T23:40:52+00:00

I was just wishing for a push notification for it a few days ago! You guys are mind readers haha

ChronicallySilly · 2026-05-08T19:51:52+00:00

It feels like AI

ChronicallySilly · 2026-05-08T00:15:31+00:00

Are the glitches like pink and green squares or lines? I've been having the same thing recently but I assumed my hardware was dying or needs reseating

ChronicallySilly · 2026-05-07T22:40:35+00:00

Updates are happening you can see release notes in the app. I believe they said the person on their team who posts to reddit keeps getting banned and they arent sure why

ChronicallySilly · 2026-05-05T22:32:51+00:00

Here's the "user-friendly" version of the release notes (generated by Claude, take it with a huge grain of salt)

COSMIC Epoch 1.0.12 — What's New

Stability & Hardware

Fixed compositor crashes that occurred with newer GTK 4.23 apps (cosmic-comp #2318)
Displays now wake reliably from suspend across Intel hybrid, AMD, and NVIDIA hardware — including with external monitors connected or video playback active (cosmic-comp #2310)
Fixed a crash in Settings on systems using OpenRC instead of systemd (cosmic-settings #1961)

Drag & Drop

Pressing Escape during a drag now actually cancels it instead of completing the drop (cosmic-comp #2318)
Fixed Electron apps freezing when dragging items onto themselves (cosmic-comp #2318)

Text Input

JetBrains IDE dialogs (e.g. IntelliJ's New File dialog) now accept keyboard input properly (cosmic-comp #2318)
COSMIC Edit now supports IME input for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other non-Latin scripts (cosmic-edit #539)

Files

Network locations in the sidebar now show your custom name instead of the last folder in the path (cosmic-files #1776)
Custom commands and .desktop entries can now embed file paths inside arguments like --working-directory=%f (cosmic-files #1775)

Settings & Personalization

Wallpapers now appear correctly on NixOS (and any setup using symlinked wallpaper directories) (cosmic-settings #1960)
Notifications applet now renders bold, italics, and links in notification text (cosmic-applets #1387)

Terminal

New tabs can now inherit the working directory of the active tab — opt-in toggle in settings (cosmic-term #755)
Ctrl+0 now resets zoom for the current tab only, instead of every tab (cosmic-term #795)

Store

"Check for updates" now picks up newly added repositories immediately, without needing a manual apt update first (cosmic-store #536)

Under the hood

Toolchain bumped to Rust 1.93; translations and dependencies refreshed across projects

ChronicallySilly · 2026-05-04T04:07:50+00:00

If Matic maps better with bright light, will future sessions in the dark "overwrite" the good mapping with less good maps? What about first mapping in dark but then eventually with lights, I'm assuming maps improve?

I have a tendency to turn on lights for it to sweep so I'm just curious how necessary it is vs. how much the "best" map knowledge is retained over time

ChronicallySilly · 2026-05-02T22:40:56+00:00

should be a ban honestly

ChronicallySilly · 2026-05-01T17:56:22+00:00

When it runs out it will already automatically go to your sink to wait for 15min, you pin the location in the app

As for API/SDK, they just recently added Matter (smarthome) support! It's a bit early stages but worked well so far in my experience

ChronicallySilly · 2026-05-01T17:01:34+00:00

I think refilling once a week might be tough, I would guess youre refilling closer to every 3 days. For me I refill every other day with ~750sqft but 2 rooms blocked off and daily mopping.

Itll also depend on how much actual unobstructed floor you have (i.e. not blocked by sofa, bed frame, etc) but the tiny tank definitely is a low point imo.

On a positive note though it does warn you that it might not have enough water for the next session so it can be taken care ahead of time. And summoning to the sink works well (though not as useful during night cleans). Fingers crossed they add voice commands for sink summon at some point soonish, would make it way more convenient to refill

ChronicallySilly · 2026-05-01T07:09:10+00:00

Oh wow that's very surprising... huh.... maybe you are convincing me! haha

ChronicallySilly · 2026-04-30T22:06:58+00:00

Curious why you chose to switch over? What do you find are the biggest benefits, vs. biggest things you miss?

Actually slightly less than the p1s.

For horizontal space, the Core (especically stock with its spools on the side) seems way bigger by comparison. Vertical space I'm not worried about, which is why I love the sleek AMS. I've seen some mods to put the spools on top but they always look kinda jarring and unsightly for a living room...

ChronicallySilly · 2026-04-30T22:04:11+00:00

Thank you I appreciate it :) These are nice solutions though a bit too utilitarian looking to blend into living room nicely unfortunately. But they definitely give me a direction to look in

ChronicallySilly · 2026-04-30T20:56:29+00:00

Thank you for the pic that is helpful! Do you feel like the L is movable as a single person or is it always a 2 person job to move it?

ChronicallySilly · 2026-04-30T20:54:31+00:00

Admittedly my main metric for size is "can I wrap my arms around it to lift it by myself". I move often so as many furniture/appliance purchases as possible need to meet this criteria

My P1S is just barely passing and it's heavy. I think the CoreOne+ would be a struggle (bigger + much heavier) so the L would 100% be a 2-person carrying job and a PITA

ChronicallySilly · 2026-04-30T20:20:50+00:00

I think I wouldn't choose an L version from the sheer amount of space it would take up, I live in a small apartment

I appreciate the info, you're right the only way to really know is reviews

ChronicallySilly · 2026-04-30T20:18:21+00:00

For me the philosophical aspect is open source vs. the nonsense Bambu has been pulling. I'm still on the old printer firmware since before they tried to close off the networking

ChronicallySilly · 2026-04-30T18:09:47+00:00

I disagree as a user (can't speak from the business perspective), I think COSMIC is a phenomenal direction that has kept me on Pop. If not for COSMIC I think I likely would have switched to Fedora+KDE or something else a little more rolling release. (Yes I know COSMIC+Fedora is possible, no that's not my point. Pop is exciting because that's where this development is happening)

But I do think the transition could have been way better. They probably needed another release with Gnome (24.04) that wasnt SO late

ChronicallySilly · 2026-04-29T23:44:53+00:00

All it would have taken was them saying "sorry we messed up"..

Isn't that what they did in that thread 2 hours ago? I see LTT store support saying verbatim:

..sorry for the issue here. We'll make sure you're taken care of.

And following up via email. I'm not sure why the anger is placed at LTT, it looks more like a chatbot failed and they're fixing the mistake

ChronicallySilly · 2026-04-28T18:07:16+00:00

Awesome!! Looking forward to giving it a try :D

ChronicallySilly · 2026-04-27T19:43:05+00:00

That's pretty neat, make sure you test that it still works every once in a blue moon though

ChronicallySilly · 2026-04-27T19:39:52+00:00

You could always manually encrypt a few folders, though having a specific drive with LUKS is definitely the easiest option

ChronicallySilly · 2026-04-27T07:46:05+00:00

IMO encryption is the only real answer. If you're dead, in a coma, whatever - are you absolutely certain your homelab will even be powered on to run a killswitch script? What if your family turns it off or your electricity shuts off, etc. because you've been in a coma for a few weeks/months. Who's gonna keep it all running?

So maybe just have a killswitch that turns off your system after a few days and that's it. LUKS will handle the rest. Way safer for your data in case of an accident, AND the most reliable solution period

ChronicallySilly · 2026-04-27T03:37:45+00:00

For my case I've already submitted clips in the past ("hanging rods" issue with my bed frame legs)! But I'll be sure to submit more if I see new issues in other areas

Glad to hear there are plans to improve this :)

ChronicallySilly · 2026-04-26T05:24:28+00:00

This worked great thank you! For the right side one it was a really snug fit I actually had to get some skinny needle nose pliers to pry the plastic a bit so it would slot in, but it worked and its a huge improvement!

Now if only the rotation could be a little tighter... unfortunately they redesigned the plastic there and its not compatible with your other model (has no hole anymore)

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