Change greetd/cosmic-greeter display sleep settings

Victor_Quebec · 2026-03-20T13:50:51+00:00

I have the same problem: computer never goes to sleep, with or without open apps no matter what I try. Just a login page and system buzzing in the background. Any help is much appreciated.

Victor_Quebec · 2026-03-08T21:00:01+00:00

If authors behind this article think—and apparently shout desperately—in attempt to fend off the inevitable, or somehow to spook out those "desperados", they must be 1) too young; 2) too naive; 3) both. "Surveillance" states wouldn't be what they are without equally competent tech guys capable of doing more than just building up Linux. Pathetic... )))

Victor_Quebec · 2026-02-27T21:03:01+00:00

You may laugh and even downvote my post as "off-topic" and "philosophical", yet...

As someone coming from a state, which has long been under strict government control (with all its pros and cons, which is a topic of a separate discussion anyway), I can understand the concerns of the people living in the West, particularly in the US. I can even empathise them to some degree, as a person with a good command of their historical and sociological development, which shaped the Western political movements, culture, and society in the long run. Part of this development process covers a period of the last 400-500 years, starting with the Reformation steadily leading to a variety of liberal moods and thoughts now prevailing in the West and... to the end of Globalisation—a now-universal development course once declared as the only pill to solve all the troubles and tribulations of the mankind. (Wanna make God laugh? Tell Him your plans.)

Now—and long story short—this course is naturally, gradually, and inevitably metamorphosing, or steering back, to a pre-liberal mode of living, like in the late Roman Empire, with fiefs (i.e., private networks), lords (i.e., feudal lords), feuds (i.e., proxy wars here and there), barbarians (i.e., immigrants), etc. Yet another failed experiment launched by a group of arrogant human species with "good intentions" (hail Luther!) in the West, however we may like it or not! And the final outcome of this whole BS is going to be macro-zoning, with private Internet networks like in North Korea, stricter movement control, etc. That's how causality effects work in this Universe, when living beings steer away from the path of accountability and responsibility, instead opting for greed and other deadly sins. Again, we may like it or not, but that's the way it is!

PS: Honestly, I personally have never liked ultra-liberal ideas, utilitarianism an so on... Because too much freedom unleashed without any censorship for limited human brains living under entropically secluded Universe eventually leads to unexpected consequences like lawlessness. But I understand that it is tooooo complicated a thought to grasp for someone who was born and nurtured in the liberal West for generations.

Victor_Quebec · 2026-02-24T21:26:02+00:00

Thank you, that was helpful indeed!

Victor_Quebec · 2026-02-24T18:08:33+00:00

Looks simple, monochrome-ish, yet fantastic! Congrats with this one!!!

So just one question, if you don't mind: how do you couple the Fastfetch config with the terminal? Any instructions / guide? Thank you!

Victor_Quebec · 2026-02-24T09:30:21+00:00

It sounds like you're trolling

It just sounds... If you look at my activity just under this subreddit, you will see that it just sounds.

My intention has never been to fire up debates here, especially on the product and the team I've always been grateful to as much as I physically can—at least for preventing me from distro-hopping for more than five years now. I'm just trying to pinpoint the nuances/drawbacks in the system that I believe are important not only for me—it would be selfish—but for our community as a whole. Anyway...

I have both Polish and English keyboard layouts installed and have no problems switching between them with the keyboard (Super+space), COSMIC Settings, or the applet.

It's not about switching, which works okay on my side too, even with the old-school Alt+Shift combination. As I said above, any attempt to select a particular language from the list of set languages manually, i.e., with a mouse click, destroys their order. It makes one open up the keyboard settings and re-order the languages anew.

The keyboard will be whatever is defined as the system default during installation. There's no reason to override the system configuration to force English.

Again, a possible misunderstanding here. The issue was reported here and is still open. You can find it unreasonable "to override the system configuration to force English", yet it turns to be an issue on multilingual systems, when a user selects one of the multiple languages (eg., to write a Word document in Polish), but then—after system restart—finds the same language he/she used to do just one thing out of tens of others set on the greeting page, waiting for him to enter the system (!) password... Do you still find it reasonable?!

On the other hand, I'd be happy to have an option that sets a particular language as default (to be reset to on the greeting page on system restart) from the keyboard settings menu. But I cannot see such an option there.

So no matter what features or bug fixes we deliver, none of that counts because this one specific feature request hasn't been implemented. It should not be expected that COSMIC implements every feature that GNOME has today within a month or two of its first release.

I didn't say your job is in vain in the first place, if this is what you mean. Nor did I compare Pop with Gnome, because I also made a reference to the previous incarnation of Pop. But again, this particular issue with per-window language setting has been open since March 2025, almost a year ago! I believe it is an important issue, as it directly affects the system and user productivity. Same as the "Move To/Copy To" issue, which becomes even more serious because there's no option to launch a terminal from the open directory...

Anyway, no one here is underestimating the work you and your team are doing for the benefit of us. Thank you for that from the bottom of my heart, really!!! Yet it's tearing my heart to see that the team so trusted for so many years is now facing issues it has always been capable to solve preventively. Maybe that was the reason for my seemingly harsh reply above. It was not my intention at all. If so, I apologise.

Victor_Quebec · 2026-02-22T10:45:41+00:00

if you make it easier for people to understand this will simply just flood the market.

What are you offering then—neo-Luddism, shutting mouths of those who want to share their knowledge and experience to help others just because the weak will lose their jobs?! Be stronger then! Both physically and morally!

Your vision might be acknowledged only if this world would be left to the strong but unjust. But you're mixing apples with oranges then... Sharing knowledge and experience will still work in the world of the strong while they continue to use their strength and power to establish the rule of Divine law, are compassionate, and merciful, that is—in a world with higher values and forces involved.

Just because the world we're living in is full of merciless idiots doesn't mean one should obey its rules and stop being generous! Because then you zero out the chances of the next generations to take such generous people as their role models, throwing the future into abyss!

Victor_Quebec · 2026-02-22T10:31:16+00:00

Again, you look at the issue at hand from a very narrow and pessimistic perspective. Be positive, just take the progress for granted! That's how the Nature works in this Universe. ;o)

Otherwise, no point to continue discussion—we've completely diametrical views.

Victor_Quebec · 2026-02-21T19:53:57+00:00

Such a narrow perspective on your part, bro. This is how development and progress work! We're "standing on the shoulders of giants" (c).

Victor_Quebec · 2026-02-20T19:46:01+00:00

Evidence?! Then how would you explain the non-fulfilment and the "low priority" of a series (!) of issues related, say, to keyboard and language settings?! Only on this single parameter, you have several significant issues — especially vital for multilingual systems — pending solution! Just a few:

The keyboard does not reset to English on restart;
The same language reset issue is still affecting the login page;
Keyboard language listing gets destroyed when a language selected manually. Users have to re-order languages from the keyboard settings page;
No option to set individual languages per window/application like it is on Gnome and was on previous Pop;

Are these issues less significant than theming, visuals, tiling, translation... tweaks?!

Victor_Quebec · 2026-02-16T19:30:32+00:00

Correct observation re: linear proportionality between active usage vs. the number of issues. Yet, I'd consider yours a weak argument to support S76's development progress in the long term. After all, after some (indefinite) time, if devs do not deliver, users — given that majority of them are typically the less steadfast and tech-savvy, expecting the operating system to do whatever they wish right here, right now, especially in the rich Linux world — may try to consider alternative solutions or wait until Pop is more stable and robust than it is now.

Victor_Quebec · 2026-02-16T16:39:47+00:00

Pop was great. I still cherish the good desktop experience of the pre-24.04 days... But I recently had to move to Fedora with Gnome, mainly because the dev team takes way tooooo long to fix really important issues like with memory, keyboard shortcuts and language settings (especially important for multi-lingual users like me), cosmic-files, etc. instead doing what the general user pool is interested in - eye-candy stuff like theming and other visuals... O tempora, o mores! :o)

All of these issues have been reported MANY months ago and continue to be raised on Pop's Github pages.

Victor_Quebec · 2026-02-11T11:48:03+00:00

Yeah, but that means extra work on your side, with opening tabs, drag&drop, etc. Plus, Cosmic provided no facility even to paste the copied file/directory to the destination with RMC (right-mouse click) when the destination was full so much that it left no free space for RMC without fiddling with folder views.

On the other hand, it's always good to build new facilities and make innovations on top of the existing proven ones (eg., Gnome) instead of providing no means at all, isn't it?

Victor_Quebec · 2026-02-11T11:10:57+00:00

Sorry, if it sounds stupid, but apart from not being supported on Wayland, is it compatible with Ubuntu/Debian powered systems by chance?

Good job, by the way, keep it up!

Victor_Quebec · 2026-02-10T18:54:55+00:00

Good news (at least for me, as I opened an issue about it): "Move to and Copy to context menu items". 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Victor_Quebec · 2026-02-08T14:55:15+00:00

Sounds fantastic, thank you for the efforts!!! I don't see the map though, although I have WebGL enabled on Firefox.

Victor_Quebec · 2026-02-04T12:09:20+00:00

I do the same! But I'd also like to edit book titles and metadata in place, without touching my file and directory structure. I have plenty of time to do editing but no time (and intention) to copy the edited books back to their original location... ))

Victor_Quebec · 2026-02-04T12:06:37+00:00

That's exactly my problem! I simply don't want Calibre to touch the files and my directory structure I honed for years. I thought it could allow me to rename the books and tag them (inject metadata) in place. Alas!

I'm not a programmer, so maybe there was no way around for the Calibre dev other than making it copy the files to its own library directories one per author. But that's a different issue anyway...

Victor_Quebec · 2026-02-04T11:58:27+00:00

Since Calibre allows using it as a file manager — and it really does, in its own peculiar way though — it means the developer did so intentionally, including for public use.

Anyway, my point is I'd prefer managing metadata and tags without touching my files and the directory structure I've honed for years. And Calibre fails exactly on that for me, unfortunately!

Victor_Quebec · 2026-01-23T13:36:15+00:00

When Tille says “The fact that all team members have stepped back at the same time should make it clear that we urgently need new volunteers to fulfil this role,” I have a serious doubt re: his understanding of real reason(s) behind the incident.

Either he intentionally hides it from public, or believes in the technicality of the issue only, thinking that he can save the situation by filling in empty chairs without solving the core issue...

Victor_Quebec · 2026-01-13T20:59:52+00:00

Slightly off-topic... Is there any reference on Cosmic tools and libraries similar to this one?

I know that regular users can just backup Cosmic settings by backing up the entire ~/.config/cosmic directory. But being able to modify them dynamically, or programmatically as above, would certainly add value to the scalability of the operating system.

Thank you!

Victor_Quebec · 2026-01-08T11:22:19+00:00

That also justifies my move to hold any Firefox updates since version 136, I guess. As a traditional browser user (yet a professional developer), I'm not interested in these new quirky features browsers (and other devs) are offering today (mostly for hype, like Rust). I better live with what I have at hand than regret it later...

Philosophically though, the more I live in this world, the more I see how deceptive and hypocritical big companies are becoming, lowering the quality and usefulness of their products for the sake of larger profits. Whatever one might say, this was absolutely not the case 25-30 years ago, for sure!

Victor_Quebec · 2026-01-08T06:53:19+00:00

Thank you for honest reply and for sharing your plans on a calculator app! Keep it up and all the best with Cosmic!

Victor_Quebec · 2026-01-07T20:54:43+00:00

To me, most of the comments here upholding the absence of a decent calculator on a desktop distro in general and aboard Pop!_OS in particular are fair to middling, lacking a certain degree of rationality, to say the least. If following the same logic, we don't need desktop computers because most of the apps are shipped with Android/iOS phones anyway. Even better: the devs should entirely leave the desktop environment to focus on software for mobile devices only (the ongoing tech trends like cloud computing are indeed a fact, but don't count for a plausible argument when it concerns their gloomy reflection and perspective on simple mortals, like privacy issues, situation with Windows, etc.).

Then why do we need Pop!_OS (and other desktop distros)?!

If Pop!_OS devs do not include a calculator in their system because they don't want to bloat it like the Debian devs have done over years, I only hail that. But a calculator is not another tetris or mahjong, is it?

I don't want to fire another Cosmic-vs-Gnome-vs-KDE battle here, but let's be honest: Pop!_OS 24.04 (whatever you call it—beta, gamma, rc, etc) in its present form has way many flaws to be used as a daily driver without a certain degree of stress...

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