{"id":535577,"date":"2026-07-11T01:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T01:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/535577\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T01:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T01:27:09","slug":"pop_os-rolls-out-its-frosted-glass-desktop-style-for-cosmic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/535577\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop!_OS Rolls Out Its &#8220;Frosted Glass&#8221; Desktop Style For COSMIC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DESKTOP\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/assets\/categories\/desktop.webp\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/><br \/>\nSystem76 developers have for the past number of weeks been working on developing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/COSMIC-Frosted-Glass\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a &#8220;frosted glass&#8221; appearance for the COSMIC desktop environment<\/a> featured on their Pop!_OS Linux distribution. For Pop!_OS users this frosted glass feature is now available and will become more widespread for other Linux distributions once the next COSMIC release is formally tagged.<\/p>\n<p>System76 CEO Carl Richell <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/carlrichell\/status\/2075683562750148749\" rel=\"nofollow\">shared<\/a> today that the &#8220;frosted glass&#8221; option is now available for Pop!_OS 24.04 users. Once updating to the latest updates, via Settings \/ Desktop \/ Appearance is now a &#8220;Frosted Glass&#8221; option under Style.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>The COSMIC developers plan to tag their next release next week, after which this frosted glass feature should propagate to the COSMIC packages on other Linux distributions.&#13;<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783733229_756_image.webp\" alt=\"COSMIC Frosted Glass effect\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s looking pretty slick and nice seeing all the effort that System76 continues to invest in both their open-source COSMIC and Pop!_OS projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"System76 developers have for the past number of weeks been working on developing a &#8220;frosted glass&#8221; appearance for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[78437,85,46,78436,78434,78433,78440,78438,78435,78439,78432,78443,125,78441,78442],"class_list":["post-535577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-desktop-linux","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-linux-benchmarking","tag-linux-hardware-benchmarks","tag-linux-hardware-reviews","tag-linux-how-to","tag-linux-performance","tag-linux-server-benchmarks","tag-open-source-graphics","tag-phoronix","tag-phoronix-test-suite","tag-technology","tag-ubuntu-benchmarks","tag-ubuntu-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}