How install COSMIC DE

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I tried, yay -S cosmic cosmic-session and cosmic-session-git with no success.

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Not sure what you are doing in the AUR.
Endeavour repo has every single Cosmic DE component except the DE itself? Now Iā€™m getting confused :slight_smile:


extra/cosmic-app-library 1.0.0.alpha.1-1 (cosmic)
    Cosmic App Library
extra/cosmic-applets 1.0.0.alpha.1-1 (cosmic)
    Applets for COSMIC Panel
extra/cosmic-bg 1.0.0.alpha.1-1 (cosmic)
    COSMIC session service which applies backgrounds to displays
extra/cosmic-comp 1.0.0.alpha.1-1 (cosmic)
    Compositor for the COSMIC desktop environment
extra/cosmic-files 1.0.0.alpha.1-1 (cosmic)
    File manager for the COSMIC desktop environment
extra/cosmic-greeter 1.0.0.alpha.1-2 (cosmic)
    COSMIC greeter for greetd
extra/cosmic-icon-theme 1.0.0.alpha.1-1
    System76 Cosmic icon theme
extra/cosmic-launcher 1.0.0.alpha.1-1 (cosmic)
    Layer Shell frontend for Pop Launcher
extra/cosmic-notifications 1.0.0.alpha.1-1 (cosmic)
    Layer Shell notifications daemon which integrates with COSMIC
extra/cosmic-osd 1.0.0.alpha.1-1 (cosmic)
    COSMIC On-Screen Display
extra/cosmic-panel 1.0.0.alpha.1-1 (cosmic)
    XDG Shell Wrapper Panel for Cosmic
extra/cosmic-randr 1.0.0.alpha.1-1 (cosmic)
    Library and utility for displaying and configuring Wayland outputs
extra/cosmic-screenshot 1.0.0.alpha.1-1 (cosmic)
    Utility for capturing screenshots via XDG Desktop Portal
extra/cosmic-session 1.0.0.alpha.1-1 (cosmic)
    Session manager for the COSMIC desktop environment
extra/cosmic-settings 1.0.0.alpha.1-1 (cosmic)
    The settings application for the COSMIC desktop environment
extra/cosmic-settings-daemon 1.0.0.alpha.1-1 (cosmic)
    Cosmic settings daemon
extra/cosmic-store 1.0.0.alpha.1-1 (cosmic)
    Cosmic App Store
extra/cosmic-terminal 1.0.0.alpha.1-2 (cosmic)
    Cosmic Terminal Emulator
extra/cosmic-text-editor 1.0.0.alpha.1-1 (cosmic)
    Text editor for the COSMIC desktop
extra/cosmic-wallpapers r4.0f2f16d-2 (cosmic)
    Wallpapers for the COSMIC Desktop Environment
extra/cosmic-workspaces 1.0.0.alpha.1-1 (cosmic)
    Cosmic workspaces
extra/xdg-desktop-portal-cosmic 1.0.0.alpha.1-1 (cosmic)
    A backend implementation for xdg-desktop-portal for the COSMIC desktop environment

unless session manager is the Whole Enchilada?

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I have the endeavour repo and I tried, sudo pacman -S cosmic cosmic-session and cosmic-session-git, with no success.

Does Rust have to be installed?

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Maybe this will help: Cosmic - Arch Wiki

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Hopefully

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