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archqt

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Cosmic desktop, some problems [CLOSED]

Hi,
i tried for few months to work with cosmic desktop but there are few minor problems.

How can you affect application to a type of file ? for example i can't affect vlc to video files, it always use cosmic-player by default ?

Is there a way to kill an application with something like xkill ? there is a bug with clipboard copy, and often it makes application crashes BUT the windows stay on the screen.

Thanks

Last edited by archqt (2026-03-05 16:53:16)

seth

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Re: Cosmic desktop, some problems [CLOSED]

Depends on where and how you're opening the file from
Most implementations interpret https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_MI … eapps.list

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archqt

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Re: Cosmic desktop, some problems [CLOSED]

Depends on where and how you're opening the file from
Most implementations interpret https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_MI … eapps.list

Thanks, I try to open it from Cosmic-file. It works fine on plasma, so i guess cosmic doesn't use this file.

Last edited by archqt (2026-03-05 14:29:11)

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Re: Cosmic desktop, some problems [CLOSED]

https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-files/issues/1461

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archqt

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Re: Cosmic desktop, some problems [CLOSED]

https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-files/issues/1461

Thanks a lot, have to wait for the next version.