On 03/07/2017 05:42 AM, Daniel Moerner wrote: > On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 11:02 PM, sm8ax1 > <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> Thanks for this. I've used i3 on other OSes and I like it a lot. I >> probably won't use it on Qubes however because of an issue that I'll >> note here since it may or may not affect other users. >> >> In i3 it is rather difficult to control the size of a window with fine >> granularity, and in particular it is very difficult to restore the exact >> size a window would have been created with. This is a problem for users >> of Tor Browser, because websites and exit nodes can query the browser >> window's size even when you have JavaScript disabled. This makes you an >> easy fingerprinting target. >> >> If anyone knows of any workarounds for this, perhaps forcing certain >> kinds of windows to be created in floating mode and keep their original >> size, please share them. > > You'd have to experiment with whether it keeps the windows their > original size, but you can force windows to start in floating mode in > .i3/config: > https://faq.i3wm.org/question/61/forcing-windows-as-always-floating.1.html > > A line similar to: > > for_window [class="anon-whonix:[.]*"] floating enable > > Should make all windows from the anon-whonix VM float by default, > although I haven't tested this. > > Daniel > > -- > 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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/CAPSgt5nbAWaR0EXRQvNG_Z_4tDx4ULfifZHYyNzRzgMUeQn3VA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/CAPSgt5nbAWaR0EXRQvNG_Z_4tDx4ULfifZHYyNzRzgMUeQn3VA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
I can confirm that the following works for keeping the Tor Browser in it's initial default state. Might be more convenient for users using other tools in Whonix that just the browser. for_window [class="Tor Browser"] floating enable -- 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/o9nmfl%24p5u%241%40blaine.gmane.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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