Cosmic desktop w/ PopOS Instructions for HydraVeil
If you use Cosmic with PopOS
Pre-reqs for PopOS
These are the same as Debian:
sudo apt install -y bubblewrap iproute2 microsocks proxychains4 ratpoison tor wireguard xserver-xephyr
Cosmic
Not all PopOS uses the Cosmic desktop graphical environment. The Cosmic’s features are relatively new, and not as stable. So you may have problems outside of Simplified Privacy’s control.
Solve Cosmic’s Copy-Paste Problems
Note: Doing these steps below, loosens the security policies of Cosmic for X11 for apps OUTSIDE of HydraVeil. In the future, we hope to have dedicated Wayland versions, but for now HydraVeil is isolating the keyboard and display with X11 windows done via Xwayland.
a. Open up “COSMIC Settings”
b. Go to “Applications” > “X11 applications compatibility”
c. Set “Global shortcuts in X11 applications” to “All keys” and enable “Mouse button events in X11 applications”
d. (Re-)enable your session profile(s)
Pin App to the Desktop Tray
Cosmic may have issues with launching HydraVeil from the desktop tray. These steps will hopefully solve this for you.
Install all available (operating system) updates through “COSMIC Store”.
This is very important, because base install updates contain dock fixes
Make the directory
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications
Edit the entry:
nano ~/.local/share/applications/hydra-veil.desktop
Copy-paste this to the terminal by right-clicking, and then switch the “path to” folder(s)
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Hydra Veil
Exec=/path/to/hydra-veil-x86_64.AppImage
Icon=networkmanager
Type=Application
Categories=Utility;Application;
Control + X to exit nano. Then “y” to save.
Open up the “Applications”** dock item, search for “Hydra Veil”, right-click the result and click “Pin to App Tray”
** Not “Launcher”
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