Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Setup dual DE Cosmic Beta and Hyprland with ML4W Dotfiles 2.9.9.3 on top of fedora 43 server ( build as of 09/30/25)

 First we setup F43 Server KVM Guest and issue `sudo dnf5 update` then reboot instance and run

$ sudo dnf install @cosmic-desktop-environment

Then disable cosmic-greeter.service and enable sddm

$ sudo systemctl disable cosmic-greeter.service

$ sudo systemctl enable sddm

Reboot instance and log into Cosmic Beta DE on top of fedora 43 Server via SDDM login prompt












Verify switching to tiling windows mode












To install Hyprland with ML4W Dotfiles DEV 2.9.9.3 follow same instructions as advised in https://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/357587/index.html

Reboot one more time and now select "hyprland" option been added to drop-down menu of SDDM login prompt



















Verify basic Hyprland with ML4W with Dotfiles 2.9.9.3 feature     











Snapshot of SDDM login prompt providing switching between instances