On 12/21/2016 07:06 AM, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
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On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 12:40:35AM -0500, Chris Laprise wrote:
On 12/20/2016 09:10 PM, Jean-Philippe Ouellet wrote:
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 4:14 PM, Chris Laprise <[email protected]> wrote:
What would be TRULY useful is a global shortcut to shutdown the VM of the
active window. That would save a great deal of mousing effort. I think it
can be done easily in KDE shortcuts, but it would be nice to have for all
DEs.
I find myself closing all VM windows before shutting down the VM out of habit.
With file managers, terminals, document editors, I finish and find myself
wishing I didn't have to go back to QM to shutdown the VM. Excess running
VMs has been an issue with Qubes in general.
https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/832 ?
I have a PoC for this, will post soon.
I still prefer my #2 suggestion there: If apps shutdown with a Ctrl+Q
shortcut, then a Ctrl+Alt+Q or similar shortcut to shutdown the VM would
make a lot of sense.
When users start encountering VMs automatically shutdown as soon as they
begin to switch back to them--even if on occassion--they'll disable the
flag for automatic idle shutdown on all their VMs. Even if they had set
them manually to begin with, that means the modification to Qubes didn't
help.
Think of a VM as a *runtime environment*. If Java or .Net automatically
shutdown due to their running apps being idle, you would be sitting
there right now wondering what these obscure "Java" and ".Net" thingies
were. Its "very unorthodox", probably in the sense that its not going to
help except in niche cases (like shutting down unused proxyVMs, which
consume a lot less RAM to begin with).
Chris
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