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COSMIC desktop, the default desktop environment for Pop!_OS, released new 1.3.0 version today.<\/p>\n
The new version of this free open-source System76 developed desktop environment introduced cool new frosted glass UI design, which can apply translucent glass effect for the backgrounds for most desktop components.
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Simply open Settings, then navigate to Desktop -> Appearances, then you can enable frosted glass for panels, menus, app windows, and other places, such as overview, and on-screen controls, as well control the frost thickness and glass opacity.<\/p>\n The design works great for the default launchers, panels, menus, and most core apps, but it does not work for some apps such as Firefox, and IMO it’s not looking so good in apps with left side-bar.<\/p>\n Besides the new design, the new desktop release also added It as well updated the system monitor app to allow NVIDIA GPU suspend, monitor power usage for AMD\/Intel GPUs, and GPU memory usage for Intel GPUs.<\/p>\n Other changes are mostly bug-fixes and small improvements. They include:<\/p>\n For more changes as well as the source tarball, see Github release page<\/a>.<\/p>\n Besides building from the source, Fedora has made the new release into the system repository for the next 45 version. Arch also include COSMIC desktop in its Extra repository, though it’s at version 1.2.0 so far.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cosmic-frostedglass.webp\")
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nAVIF<\/code> image support for background wallpapers using libdav1d<\/code> library, added always hide<\/i> option for panels, and option to preserve panel\/dock style on window maximize.<\/p>\n\n
Get COSMIC Desktop 1.3.0<\/h3>\n