Saturday, October 4, 2025

Setup Cosmic Beta as dual DE for openSUSE Krypton ( KDE Plasma 6.5 Beta2)

Once again install Hyprland with ML4W Dotfiles DEV 2.9.9.3 along with Cosmic Beta DE. Apparently pre-loading  Hyprland virtual instance and performing actions causing trouble for Cosmic creates some shared objects in virtual machine RAM serving in particular the target of normal switching between folders contain desktop wallpapers  and afterwards we may work for a while in Cosmice DE instance preserving ability to manage Cosmic Desktop with no issues visible at first glance .

Activating required repository and install patterns-cosmic-cosmic

> sudo zypper addrepo --refresh https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:COSMIC:Next/openSUSE_Factory/X11:COSMIC:Next.repo

> sudo zypper refresh

> sudo zypper install patterns-cosmic-cosmic

Loading repository data...

Reading installed packages...

Resolving package dependencies...

The following 3 recommended packages were automatically selected:

  fprintd-pam gcr3-ssh-askpass gnome-keyring-pam


The following 62 NEW packages are going to be installed:

  acpid bluez-auto-enable-devices cosmic-applet-app-list cosmic-applet-audio cosmic-applet-battery cosmic-applet-bluetooth

  cosmic-applet-input-sources cosmic-applet-launcher-button cosmic-applet-minimize cosmic-applet-network cosmic-applet-notifications

  cosmic-applet-panel-button cosmic-applet-power cosmic-applets cosmic-applet-status-area cosmic-applet-tiling cosmic-applet-time

  cosmic-applet-workspaces cosmic-app-library cosmic-bg cosmic-comp cosmic-edit cosmic-files cosmic-greeter cosmic-icons cosmic-idle

  cosmic-launcher cosmic-notifications cosmic-osd cosmic-panel cosmic-player cosmic-randr cosmic-reader cosmic-screenshot cosmic-session

  cosmic-settings cosmic-settings-daemon cosmic-store cosmic-term cosmic-workspaces fprintd fprintd-pam gcr3-data gcr3-prompter

  gcr3-ssh-askpass gnome-keyring gnome-keyring-pam greetd greetd-branding-openSUSE libfprint-2-2 libgck-1-0 libgck-modules-gnome-keyring

  libgcr-3-1 libgusb2 libvulkan_radeon mozilla-fira-fonts patterns-cosmic-cosmic polkit-gnome pop-icon-theme pop-launcher

  system-user-greeter xdg-desktop-portal-cosmic

The following NEW pattern is going to be installed:

  cosmic

62 new packages to install.

Package download size:   211.5 MiB

Package install size change:

              |     875.9 MiB  required by packages that will be installed

   875.9 MiB  |  -      0 B    released by packages that will be removed


Backend:  classic_rpmtrans

Continue? [y/n/v/...? shows all options] (y): y

Preloading: bluez-auto-enable-devices-5.79-3.3.noarch.rpm [done]

Preloading: gcr3-ssh-askpass-3.41.2-4.1.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: libgck-1-0-3.41.2-4.1.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: acpid-2.0.34-3.4.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: libgusb2-0.4.9-1.4.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: gcr3-data-3.41.2-4.1.noarch.rpm [done]

Preloading: system-user-greeter-1-3.2.noarch.rpm [done]

Preloading: polkit-gnome-0.105-16.1.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: gcr3-prompter-3.41.2-4.1.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: libgck-modules-gnome-keyring-48.0-4.1.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: greetd-branding-openSUSE-0.17.0-1.1.noarch.rpm [done]

Preloading: libfprint-2-2-1.94.9+tod1-1.1.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: libgcr-3-1-3.41.2-4.1.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: gnome-keyring-pam-48.0-4.1.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: fprintd-1.94.4-2.1.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: fprintd-pam-1.94.4-2.1.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: gnome-keyring-48.0-4.1.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: greetd-0.10.3-2.1.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: cosmic-applet-input-sources-1.0.0~beta.1.1+3-36.1.noarch.rpm [done]

Preloading: cosmic-applet-battery-1.0.0~beta.1.1+3-36.1.noarch.rpm [done]

Preloading: cosmic-applet-bluetooth-1.0.0~beta.1.1+3-36.1.noarch.rpm [done]

Preloading: cosmic-applet-app-list-1.0.0~beta.1.1+3-36.1.noarch.rpm [done]

Preloading: cosmic-applet-launcher-button-1.0.0~beta.1.1+3-36.1.noarch.rpm [done]

Preloading: cosmic-applet-audio-1.0.0~beta.1.1+3-36.1.noarch.rpm [Error: "The requested URL returned error: 404", trying next mirror.]

Preloading: cosmic-applet-audio-1.0.0~beta.1.1+3-36.1.noarch.rpm [done]

Preloading: libvulkan_radeon-25.2.4-1.1.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: cosmic-settings-daemon-1.0.0~beta1.1+1-11.1.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: patterns-cosmic-cosmic-20250118-6.6.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: mozilla-fira-fonts-4.202-1.3.noarch.rpm [done]

Preloading: cosmic-bg-1.0.0~beta1.1+1-25.1.x86_64.rpm [Error: "The requested URL returned error: 404", trying next mirror.]

Preloading: cosmic-bg-1.0.0~beta1.1+1-25.1.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: cosmic-settings-1.0.0~beta1.1+37-16.1.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: cosmic-workspaces-1.0.0~beta1.1+3-28.1.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: cosmic-greeter-1.0.0~beta1.1+2-12.1.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: cosmic-edit-1.0.0~beta1.1+29-30.1.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: cosmic-launcher-1.0.0~beta1.1+1-29.1.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: cosmic-term-1.0.0~beta1.1+31-31.1.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: cosmic-idle-1.0.0~beta1.1+0-20.1.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: cosmic-notifications-1.0.0~beta1.1+2-27.1.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: cosmic-files-1.0.0~beta1.1+36-31.1.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: cosmic-randr-1.0.0~beta1.1+0-23.1.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: cosmic-player-1.0.0~beta1.1+18-29.1.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: cosmic-screenshot-1.0.0~beta1.1+2-24.1.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: cosmic-comp-1.0.0~beta1.1+0-32.1.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: cosmic-session-1.0.0~beta1.1+0-35.1.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: cosmic-reader-0.1.0+git20250114.9ea7c85-12.12.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: pop-icon-theme-3.5.0-15.2.noarch.rpm [done]

Preloading: cosmic-app-library-1.0.0~beta.1.1+1-29.1.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: pop-launcher-1.2.6-19.1.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: cosmic-icons-1.0.0~beta1.1+0-31.1.noarch.rpm [done]

Preloading: cosmic-osd-1.0.0~beta1.1+5-26.1.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: cosmic-applet-workspaces-1.0.0~beta.1.1+3-36.1.noarch.rpm [done]

Preloading: cosmic-applet-time-1.0.0~beta.1.1+3-36.1.noarch.rpm [done]

Preloading: cosmic-applet-tiling-1.0.0~beta.1.1+3-36.1.noarch.rpm [done]

Preloading: cosmic-applet-status-area-1.0.0~beta.1.1+3-36.1.noarch.rpm [done]

Preloading: cosmic-applet-power-1.0.0~beta.1.1+3-36.1.noarch.rpm [done]

Preloading: cosmic-applet-panel-button-1.0.0~beta.1.1+3-36.1.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: cosmic-applet-notifications-1.0.0~beta.1.1+3-36.1.noarch.rpm [done]

Preloading: cosmic-applet-network-1.0.0~beta.1.1+3-36.1.noarch.rpm [done]

Preloading: cosmic-applet-minimize-1.0.0~beta.1.1+3-36.1.noarch.rpm [done]

Preloading: cosmic-panel-1.0.0~beta1.1+1-28.1.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: cosmic-applets-1.0.0~beta.1.1+3-36.1.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: xdg-desktop-portal-cosmic-1.0.0~beta1.1+1-30.1.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preloading: cosmic-store-1.0.0~beta1.1+27-32.1.x86_64.rpm [done]

Preload finished. [success (2.5 MiB/s) ] ...........................................................................................[done]

Retrieving: cosmic-app-library-1.0.0~beta.1.1+1-29.1.x86_64 (Development branch of COSMIC (unstable) (openSUSE_Factory))

                                                                                                                     (1/62),  10.0 MiB

Retrieving: cosmic-bg-1.0.0~beta1.1+1-25.1.x86_64 (Development branch of COSMIC (unstable) (openSUSE_Factory))       (2/62),   2.5 MiB

Retrieving: cosmic-comp-1.0.0~beta1.1+0-32.1.x86_64 (Development branch of COSMIC (unstable) (openSUSE_Factory))     (3/62),   8.8 MiB

. . . . . .

Retrieving: cosmic-term-1.0.0~beta1.1+31-31.1.x86_64 (Development branch of COSMIC (unstable) (openSUSE_Factory))   (59/62),  13.1 MiB

Retrieving: cosmic-greeter-1.0.0~beta1.1+2-12.1.x86_64 (Development branch of COSMIC (unstable) (openSUSE_Factory)) (60/62),   9.4 MiB

Retrieving: cosmic-settings-1.0.0~beta1.1+37-16.1.x86_64 (Development branch of COSMIC (unstable) (openSUSE_Factory))

                                                                                                                    (61/62),  14.8 MiB

Retrieving: patterns-cosmic-cosmic-20250118-6.6.x86_64 (Development branch of COSMIC (unstable) (openSUSE_Factory)) (62/62),   9.2 KiB


Checking for file conflicts: .......................................................................................................[done]

( 1/62) Installing: cosmic-app-library-1.0.0~beta.1.1+1-29.1.x86_64 ................................................................[done]

( 2/62) Installing: cosmic-bg-1.0.0~beta1.1+1-25.1.x86_64 ..........................................................................[done]

( 3/62) Installing: cosmic-comp-1.0.0~beta1.1+0-32.1.x86_64 ........................................................................[done]

( 4/62) Installing: cosmic-edit-1.0.0~beta1.1+29-30.1.x86_64 .......................................................................[done]

( 5/62) Installing: cosmic-files-1.0.0~beta1.1+36-31.1.x86_64 

(40/62) Installing: gcr3-data-3.41.2-4.1.noarch ....................................................................................[done]

. . . . . 

/usr/bin/systemd-sysusers -

Creating group 'greeter' with GID 460.

Creating user 'greeter' (n/a) with UID 460 and GID 460.

(47/62) Installing: system-user-greeter-1-3.2.noarch ...............................................................................[done]

(48/62) Installing: libgcr-3-1-3.41.2-4.1.x86_64 ...................................................................................[done]

(49/62) Installing: gcr3-prompter-3.41.2-4.1.x86_64 ................................................................................[done]

(50/62) Installing: libgck-modules-gnome-keyring-48.0-4.1.x86_64 ...................................................................[done]

(51/62) Installing: libfprint-2-2-1.94.9+tod1-1.1.x86_64 ...........................................................................[done]

(52/62) Installing: greetd-branding-openSUSE-0.17.0-1.1.noarch .....................................................................[done]

. . . . .

(59/62) Installing: cosmic-term-1.0.0~beta1.1+31-31.1.x86_64 .......................................................................[done]

(60/62) Installing: cosmic-greeter-1.0.0~beta1.1+2-12.1.x86_64 .....................................................................[done]

(61/62) Installing: cosmic-settings-1.0.0~beta1.1+37-16.1.x86_64 ...................................................................[done]

(62/62) Installing: patterns-cosmic-cosmic-20250118-6.6.x86_64 .....................................................................[done]

Running post-transaction scripts ...................................................................................................[done]

Runtime snapshots of Cosmic Beta DE while main instance is running Suse Krypton been rolled forward up to 10/04/25 (KDE Plasma 6.5 Beta2)















































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