I just performed a clean install of Tumbleweed without KDE and it defaulted to IceWM. From there I open YAST and installed the repository for Cosmic DE. I then installed the patterns for Cosmic. I enabled the Cosmic greeter and I am able to get into Cosmic as expected.
However, I cannot open YAST at all. It pops up an X-Term window to ask for the sudo password. I put in the password and the window goes way, but YAST does not open. I can go back to IceWM and configure everything, but not in Cosmic.
Are there some packages that I am missing, or do I just need to wait for the devs to build everything?
Sorry, I forgot to put that in the original post. I only get the TUI version. It’s not critical. I only use that PC to watch YouTube videos when I cook and it works for that.
Sounds like maybe starting it in a su - session might help.
I know Cosmic is going through an alpha or beta right now, not sure of all the details, so it may just be that that’s not yet functional. Might be a question that the System76 folks can help out with, depending on which release you’re using (they may just say “try it with Pop!_OS and see if it works”, but YaST isn’t useful on their OS, so it’s kinda a different situation.
What repo did you install from? I might try it out in a VM myself.
I did su - and that didn’t help either. I am figuring it is just a matter of YAST and all the modules will have to be updated to work in RUST, but I didn’t know if anyone else had managed to get any of this working.
Cosmic does run and it looks nice. Many features are missing and many things broken, but they are pushing updates almost daily.
The only one I know for sure is for Tumbleweed only.
I’ll just hang tight with it for now. I would not suggest anyone run it on a critical system, but for me testing it on the PC in the kitchen gives me a look at how it runs on bare metal, and I think Tumbleweed would be a great match for Cosmic.
