{"id":290231,"date":"2026-07-16T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/the-desktop-environment-every-linux-distro-wants-just-got-a-sleek-frosted-glass-theme\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T11:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T15:20:07","slug":"the-desktop-environment-every-linux-distro-wants-just-got-a-sleek-frosted-glass-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/the-desktop-environment-every-linux-distro-wants-just-got-a-sleek-frosted-glass-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"The desktop environment every Linux distro wants just got a sleek frosted glass theme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/the-desktop-environment-every-linux-distro-wants-just-got-a-sleek-frosted-glass-theme\/\">The desktop environment every Linux distro wants just got a sleek frosted glass theme<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/the-desktop-environment-every-linux-distro-wants-just-got-a-sleek-frosted-glass-theme\/\">https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/the-desktop-environment-every-linux-distro-wants-just-got-a-sleek-frosted-glass-theme\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-16 10:47:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.xda-developers.com\">www.xda-developers.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"title icon i-list\">Summary<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n                                        COSMIC Epoch 1.3.0 brings a new frosted-glass theme system-wide for any Linux distro.\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        The frosted glass theme requires app devs to update their libcosmic versions, so adoption may be gradual.\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        COSMIC Epoch 1.3.0 also adds GPU power readouts and an improved Bluetooth applet.\n                        <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A few days ago, the founder and CEO of System76, Carl Richell, showed off a new frosted glass effect for the COSMIC desktop environment. At the time, it was only a Pop!_OS thing, but now a new version of COSMIC has brought this sleek new desktop theme to any distro.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"cosmic-epoch-1-3-0-introduces-frosted-glass-for-everyone\">\n                        COSMIC Epoch 1.3.0 introduces frosted glass for everyone<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"and-it-looks-amazing\">\n            And it looks amazing<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>        Credit:\u00a0Carl Richell<\/p>\n<p>You can check out everything new with COSMIC Epoch 1.3.0 over on GitHub. While it features a nice list of changes, the star of the show is definitely the new theme:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frosted glass is now supported, involving months of work throughout the COSMIC desktop.<\/strong> Open COSMIC Settings, navigate to the Desktop page in the sidebar, then the Appearance page, and finally click on Frosted glass in the Style&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/the-desktop-environment-every-linux-distro-wants-just-got-a-sleek-frosted-glass-theme\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The desktop environment every Linux distro wants just got a sleek frosted glass theme https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/the-desktop-environment-every-linux-distro-wants-just-got-a-sleek-frosted-glass-theme\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":290232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.xdaimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2025\/12\/cosmic-desktop-on-laptop.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-290231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290233,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290231\/revisions\/290233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}