According to #243 Chatting COSMIC Desktop Alpha With The CEO | Carl Richell, they are planning an alpha release on the last thursday of each month. This means that Alpha 3 should be out on October 31, 2024.
Likewise, Carl hopes to have a Beta 1 in January 2025.
Thanks for the heads up and continued development. Good luck with the porting.
Old School Runescape.
This one hurts… as I use this as my password manager on mobile :{
I still haven’t done much of Varlamore Part 1(just some thieving of rich citizens and hunter rumours). With Part 2, I did do the Colossol Wyrm agility course and got the graceful recolor. I have yet to do Moons or the new prayer training.
That said, I did try out Hueycotl with some friends and… it was kinda lacking. The fight is long and the drops are not good. I know they recently buffed the drop table a bit, but I’m not in a rush to go back… Which is fine, I still have lots of things to do (ie. I just finished Sins of the Father and am now working on the Elite Varrock diary).
I think the “Ubuntu Core 22” means it is the snap based version of Steam rather than the deb version.
If you look at the snapcraft.yaml for the Steam snap, it uses core22
as its base.
Looks like a number of patches are landing in Ubuntu to address this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/2082335
Update: CUPS Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Fix Available
This is a great summary. Thanks!
It looks like you are running XFCE instead of GNOME (the normal Ubuntu desktop). I’m not sure how that happened… but you an always just install another desktop.
For instance, you can try to make sure you have the ubuntu-desktop
or ubuntu-desktop-minimal
metapackage installed:
sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop-minimal
After that, the login manager should allow you to select the Ubuntu session rather than the XFCE one.
I wrote a Python script to parse the data and convert into RGB values. Here are the light mode values:
blue 00496c
red a0252b
green 3b6e43
yellow 966800
bright_green 00572c
bright_red 880418
bright_orange 782c00
ext_warm_grey 9b8e8a
ext_orange fab86c
ext_yellow f6e062
ext_blue 6acad8
ext_purple d48cff
ext_pink ff9bdd
ext_indigo 95c4fc
accent_blue 00525a
accent_red 78292e
accent_green 185529
accent_warm_grey 554742
accent_orange 624000
accent_yellow 534800
accent_purple 68217b
accent_pink 860439
accent_indigo 2e496c
Here are the dark mode values:
blue 94ebeb
red ffb5b5
green abf6d1
yellow fff19e
bright_green 5edb8c
bright_red ffa090
bright_orange ffa37d
ext_warm_grey 9b8e8a
ext_orange ffad00
ext_yellow fddb40
ext_blue 48b9c7
ext_purple ce7dff
ext_pink f93983
ext_indigo 3e88ff
accent_blue 63d0de
accent_red fca1a0
accent_green 92ce9b
accent_warm_grey cabab4
accent_orange ffad00
accent_yellow f6e062
accent_purple e79bfd
accent_pink ff9bb1
accent_indigo a1c0eb
They have the RGB values as decimals in the light.ron
and dark.ron
files here: https://github.com/pop-os/libcosmic/blob/master/cosmic-theme/src/model/
You would need to convert the numbers to hexadecimal manually.
Yes, based on the diagrams on their blog, it looks like this only impacts Snaps.
From the Discourse Blog:
The Linux desktop provides XDG Desktop Portals as a standardised way for applications to access resources that are outside of the sandbox. Applications that have been updated to use XDG Desktop Portals will continue to use them. Prompting is not intended to replace XDG Desktop Portals but to complement them by providing the desktop an alternative way to ask the user for permission. Either when an application has not been updated to use XDG Desktop Portals, or when it makes access requests not covered by XDG Desktop Portals.
Since prompting works at the syscall level, it does not require an application’s awareness or cooperation to work and extends the set of applications that can be run inside of a sandbox, allowing for a safer desktop. It is designed to enable desktop applications to take full advantage of snap packaging that might otherwise require classic confinement.
So this looks like it complements and not replaces the XDG Desktop Portals, especially for applications that have not implemented the Portals. It allows you to still run those applications in confinement while providing some more granular access controls.
From what I can tell, Pop!_OS does not ship their own version of timeshift. Instead, it comes directly from Ubuntu. So if there is a change in maintainers, it should be reported to Ubuntu:
As a moderator, you should see a “shield” on a post and from that sub-menu, you can choose to feature or unfeature a post:
I used to use VLC for music, but these days I use Symphony to play local files on my phone. VLC tended to struggle when scanning or indexing large folders (which it did all the time…), while Symphony is a bit better at that. That said, I still use VLC for video and for casting things from my DLNA server (VLC supports Chromecast).
For ebooks, I’ve used Librera FD and that has been mostly OK. I’ll checkout the two you mentioned though. Thanks!
On Ubuntu, there is a program called “Firmware Updater” which uses LVFS to retrieve and install firmware updates (including BIOS/UEFI).
According to this page: https://fwupd.org/lvfs/devices/com.lenovo.ThinkPadN23ETXXW.firmware your Carbon X1 Gen 6 should be supported.
All my servers moved to 24.04 and I wanted my desktop to keep in line with them (so they all had the same packages). Likewise, I’ve been following the development of GNOME and I really liked what they have done with versions 45 and 46, so I wanted to try a more modern version of that desktop environment (Pop 22.04 is still on GNOME 42 and is now missing out on some cool features like the quick settings menu).
Finally, I wanted to try out Wayland and the experience on Pop 22.04 is not great with Wayland, especially since it is missing out on the more recent fixes and updates in Ubuntu 24.04.
If you are happy with Pop 22.04 and willing to wait for COSMIC to stabilize and become feature complete, then that is what you should do. For me, I used this delay in releasing Pop 24.04 as an opportunity to try out something different and for the most part, I’m pretty happy with the experience.
I’m very close to 99 mining (about 400k left), so will probably continue star mining and amethyst mining.
My medium term goal is Varrock Elite (which is why I starting mining) and all I have left is 7 more runecrafting levels… but I really dislike this skill, so have been dragging my feet.