COSMIC 1.3.0: Frosted Glass Finally Lands
COSMIC 1.3.0: Frosted Glass Finally Lands Frosted Glass Takes Centre Stage Under the Bonnet: Compositor, Settings and Hardware Gains Applets, Files, Terminal and the Wider Toolkit A Concluding Word System76's COSMIC desktop environment has just taken its biggest visual leap yet. On 14th July 2026, the COSMIC Epoch 1.3.0 release landed on GitHub, and headlining the changelog is a feature the community has been asking for since the very first alpha builds: proper frosted glass . It's not just a lick of paint, either. This release touches nearly every corner of the desktop, from the compositor and settings daemon right down to the terminal emulator and file manager, with a healthy pile of bug fixes and hardware improvements tucked in alongside the headline act. For anyone who hasn't been following along, COSMIC is System76's from-scratch desktop environment, built in Rust using the iced toolkit and designed as the eventual default for Pop!_OS. It's a genuin...
