For various reasons there are now a total of 35 VMs in my Qubes Manager which make some confusion.
It is true there are two flags in the view tab that are supposed to put some order: Show/Hide inactive VMs Show/Hide internal VMs But I found them no much useful. In fact I keep Show/Hide inactive VMs always flagged, otherwise it would be impossible to start and launch a command in a VM without reverting to the main menu which is even more complex to put in order. But even unflagging it, which information can one get? Only that all active VM are green which now happens all the time thanks to the great work of developers. Show/Hide internal VMs apparently changes nothing. What about adding a button "Show only preferred VMs" with an option to set which VMs are preferred perhaps in VM settings "basic" tab? For the user it would be very easy to set which VMs are preferred. In other words, I found that the main menu which is functional for normal OSs is too cumbersome for Qubes with all these VMs and applications that keep repeating for each VM and that should be manually configured. On the other hand Qubes Manager is really snappy. You only have to remember the name of the application you want to "run command in VM" But of course once preferred VMs are set, a button in the main menu may show only them in the main menu as well. Linux Mint has a similar feature for preferred applications, but in Qubes before reaching the application level there is the VM level, so, when there is time for the easy to use section... Best Fran -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/CAPzH-qCmFqNvxVCwuCsgMsZZ2ufHExmiLs%3DuqWRiN0n1bf1K0g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
