A week after the previous 1.0.3 release, COSMIC Desktop 1.0.4 is out as a small maintenance update, focused on performance improvements, bug fixes, and internal refinements across much of the desktop’s core stack.
In the window manager and compositor, visual artifacts in overview mode have been resolved, and an issue where using Super+click on tiled windows caused unexpected behavior has been fixed.
File handling improves in COSMIC 1.0.4, with the file manager now avoiding listing hidden files during path completion and delivering better copy and archive extraction performance. The COSMIC text editor has been optimized as well, with improved load times and reduced memory usage when opening large files.
Apart from that, fingerprint login behavior in the greeter has been improved, and suspend actions are now configurable, allowing alternatives to systemctl suspend. Plus, session logic for setting SSH_AUTH_SOCK has been refined to address issues seen on distributions such as NixOS.
Finally, settings and software management were also refined with COSMIC Settings now failing early if it cannot connect to the secret service, preventing repeated background failures, while COSMIC Store introduces broader performance improvements and more efficient AppStream metadata updates.
For more information, see the changelog.
COSMIC Desktop 1.0.4’s packages are expected to land in the repositories of rolling-release distros, such as Arch, openSUSE Tumbleweed, etc., in the coming days.
