--- title: Pop!_OS Rolls Out Its "Frosted Glass" Desktop Style For... description: System76 has rolled out a 'frosted glass' visual style for the COSMIC desktop environment on Pop!_OS 24.04. The feature is accessible via Settings / Desktop /... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/pop-os-rolls-out-its-frosted-glass-desktop-style-for-cosmic-tyrffqjhl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Pop!_OS Rolls Out Its "Frosted Glass" Desktop Style For COSMIC | daily.dev og:description: System76 has rolled out a 'frosted glass' visual style for the COSMIC desktop environment on Pop!_OS 24.04. The feature is accessible via Settings / Desktop /... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/pop-os-rolls-out-its-frosted-glass-desktop-style-for-cosmic-tyrffqjhl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/TyRFfQJhl.png og:image:alt: Pop!_OS Rolls Out Its "Frosted Glass" Desktop Style For COSMIC og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Pop!_OS Rolls Out Its "Frosted Glass" Desktop Style For COSMIC **[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 1 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary System76 has rolled out a 'frosted glass' visual style for the COSMIC desktop environment on Pop!_OS 24.04. The feature is accessible via Settings / Desktop / Appearance under Style. A formal COSMIC release is planned for next week, after which the frosted glass option will become available for other Linux distributions using COSMIC packages. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How do I enable the frosted glass style in COSMIC on Pop!_OS 24.04? Update Pop!_OS 24.04 to the latest updates, then go to Settings, Desktop, Appearance, and select the new "Frosted Glass" option under Style. System76 CEO Carl Richell announced this feature was made available directly to Pop!_OS users, ahead of it reaching other Linux distributions that package COSMIC. _Following desktop environment feature rollouts like this gets easier when developers track Linux updates on daily.dev._ ### When will the COSMIC frosted glass style be available on other Linux distributions besides Pop!_OS? COSMIC developers plan to tag their next release the following week, after which the frosted glass style should propagate to the COSMIC packages used by other Linux distributions. Until that release is tagged, the feature is only confirmed available to Pop!_OS 24.04 users through direct updates. _Tracking COSMIC release timing across distros is simpler with daily.dev for Linux desktop watchers._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [System76’s COSMIC desktop: A hands-on tour of Pop\!\_OS 24.04 LTS](https://daily.dev/posts/system76-s-cosmic-desktop-a-hands-on-tour-of-pop-os-24-04-lts-yyeanjtwp) · All Things Open · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [COSMIC Desktop's Frosted Glass Is Giving Windows Aero Vibes](https://daily.dev/posts/cosmic-desktop-s-frosted-glass-is-giving-windows-aero-vibes-umnnf8wi0) · Phoronix · 57 upvotes · 5 comments - [COSMIC is doing what GNOME still can't, and it's only been out for a year](https://daily.dev/posts/cosmic-is-doing-what-gnome-still-can-t-and-it-s-only-been-out-for-a-year-hwwqp4tij) · XDA Developers · 43 upvotes · 8 comments --- Tags: [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/pop-os-rolls-out-its-frosted-glass-desktop-style-for-cosmic-tyrffqjhl) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Pop!_OS Rolls Out Its \"Frosted Glass\" Desktop Style For COSMIC","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/pop-os-rolls-out-its-frosted-glass-desktop-style-for-cosmic-tyrffqjhl","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/pop-os-rolls-out-its-frosted-glass-desktop-style-for-cosmic-tyrffqjhl"},"datePublished":"2026-07-11T00:38:14.674Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T07:13:49.530Z","description":"System76 has rolled out a 'frosted glass' visual style for the COSMIC desktop environment on Pop!_OS 24.04. 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