Since updating the F44, my printer no longer works, and the Applications menu on the top left of the screen randomly becomes unresponsive. Clicking on it does nothing and a reboot is required.
I love using Fedora but annoying showstopper bugs like these are frustrating. Windows has plenty of issues, but you dont see stuff like this. Hopefully this will get fixed in the next round of updates.
I can’t help with the printer. I mostly use the launcher over the app menu - but this fixes the app menu locking:
pkill -9 -f '^cosmic-app-library$'
Only a temporary fix, though. It is annoying. Hopefully, it’ll be tweaked soon.
What’s your printer model ?
Also could you please paste the output of this command rpm-ostree db diff to see what has changed during the update.
If you want a more stable experience, just install F43 atomic and wait for 3 to 6 months before you upgrade to the next release… can’t have both, bleeding edge and bug-free dont come together.
That didn’t work. But thanks.
Sorry, it should be:
pkill -9 -f ‘^cosmic-app-library$’
I updated this morning to 44.20260509.0 and so far so good as far as the Applications menu goes. Still not able to add the printer though. I get what the previous poster said about “bleeding edge” and all, but these errors were still happening with F43. I was hoping version 44 would fix them. I have a brand new X1 Carbon that is going to be delivered on Monday. I want to install Fedora with confidence, but I am thinking about leaving Windows on it for a while and seeing what happens in the next few weeks as far as updates go.
Ugh, I wanted to supply a screenshot of the “CUPS server error” when I try and add a printer but the Applications menu stopped working again. The Terminal command doesn’t restore it.
What GPU?
Intel Arc graphics 140V.
I installed Silverblue 44 and it doesn’t have any issues. It defintely has some advantages, not the least of which is OneDrive integration. Instead of a PWA, I have OneDrive right in the Files application. Thats nice.
I dont like the UI as much. COSMIC looks and feels more modern and responsive. Fewer navigation clicks to get where I want to go. GNOME feels very “last generation” in comparison. I had to use Refine to do a lot of UI tweaking like changing the icon set and going to all all light mode desktop.
So what to do? Hope that COSMIC fixes its bugs eventually? New ThinkPad arrives on Thursday. Keeping Windows on it is a last resort.
Here’s another person with the same issues. I use an NVIDIA graphics card. For now, it’s best to avoid the menu and use the launcher instead. As for the printer, it’s probably an issue with Cosmic itself. If you really need to use Fedora without any problems, I recommend Silverblue or Kinoite. Although it’s stable, the Atomic version of this desktop environment is still in development.
I was messing around, and one possible solution is to reset all of Cosmic’s settings by deleting the ~/.config/cosmic folder; when you reboot, it should revert to the default settings.
So far, the menu issue has disappeared.
The starting point to get bugs fixed is to report them, either upstream or to the SIG maintaining the desktop environment: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/cosmic/SIG/issues
I created an issue and reported the bug. Now on version 44.20260519.1 and the Applications menu still doesn’t work properly.
Can you link to those issue/bug report?
Updating to 44.20260523.0 seems to have fixed both issues.
Hope I haven’t jinxed it.
Update: it still breaks. Just less often.
Here is a great article by someone who is clearly very well informed about COSMIC’s bugs, and specifically the Applications menu bug which I have reported. The author nails it when he talks about “stability first” vs. “experience first” users. I fall into the latter category. I am still using COSMIC becaue of the more aesthetically pleasing UI, and the more technologically advanced underpinnings.
I have filed bug reports on forge.fedoraproject.org but they appear to have been ignored. I hope the COSMIC developers are working towards solutions. In the meantime, I’m going to keep using it as my primary OS because despite its flaws, its still better than Windows or macOS.