I found it very difficult to get Qubes installed and useable. These are some 
notes I made at the time and may need some adjustment for other scenarios.

INSTALLATION 4.04rc2:
Use 8GB USB stick (left OR right side works). Bigger sizes failed for me.
disable Secure Boot
enable ACHI

edit sda2 EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.cfg
comment out under 'qubes-verbose' section
# noexitboot=1
# mapbs=1
text install with 'inst.text' placed before i915 in the following line:
kernel=vmlinuz inst.stage2=hd:LABEL=Qubes-R4.0-x86_64 i915.alpha_support=1

make sure networking is attached to bring up GUI

I had to combine sys-net and sys-usb in the install options because I was using 
a docking station for ethernet.
Disable power mgmt except blank screen in Screensaver
Touchpad settings: enable tap and adjust speed

sudo qubes-dom0-update kernel-latest-qubes-vm
sudo qubes-dom0-update kernel-latest
(remove old kernel in qubes EFI)
sudo qubes-dom0-update --action=[reinstall|remove|list] kernel-latest[-qubes-vm]
sudo dnf remove qubes-template-fedora-32

A lot of video issues causing crashes. Found the following fixed it enough so 
far to make it useable:
[https://github.com/Qubes-Community/Contents/blob/master/docs/troubleshooting/intel-igfx-troubleshooting.m](https://github.com/Qubes-Community/Contents/blob/master/docs/troubleshooting/intel-igfx-troubleshooting.md)

change: i915.alpha_support=1 -> i915.force_probe=*

The following are some miscellaneous notes to get the DPI and GTK working 
right. I never tuned this properly, so you will have to play around. Please 
post configurations if you ever get this correct.

DPI 288 & Font size adjust to 6 in Appearance settings
Window Manager - xhdpi

- about:config in Firefox and search for layout.css.devPixelsPerPx set this 
value to 2 or 1.5 as you wish to adjust the size of the Firefox icons

- 
https://askubuntu.com/questions/652021/adapt-font-and-icon-sizes-to-high-definition-screen-resolutions-in-ubuntu-studio

-

- 1. Set a Custom DPI setting
- Open a terminal with CTRL+ALT+t and enter

- LANG=c xfce4-settings-manager

- In "Appearence"->Fonts-> "Custom DPI Setting:" set this to 288 (instead of 
the default 96).
- Log off and on again to accept the new settings in all windows.
- 2. Adapt Theme and settings

- Set your panel size to a height of 48
- In xfce4-settings-manager->"Settings Editor" (xfce4-settings-editor)

- in section xfce4-desktop (create an entry if it doesn't exist)

- desktop-icons/icon-size Type Integer and set it to 128

- in section xsettings set CursorThemeSize to 48
- in section xsettings set Gtk/IconSizes to

- 
gtk-large-toolbar=32,32:gtk-small-toolbar=24,24:gtk-menu=32,32:gtk-dialog=88,88:gtk-button=32,32:gtk-dnd=32,32
- Or use the commandline:
- xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Gtk/IconSizes -s 
"gtk-large-toolbar=32,32:gtk-small-toolbar=24,24:gtk-menu=32,32:gtk-dialog=88,88:gtk-button=32,32:gtk-dnd=32,32"

- gtk-large-toolbar are main toolbars
- gtk-small-toolbar are secondary toolbars
- gtk-menu are menus
- gtk-dialog are dialog icons
- gtk-button are buttons (eg the xfce panel uses buttons)
- gtk-dnd are the icons displayed if you drag and drop a file or a folder

- you can change them to any size as long your icon theme supports it

- In xfce4-settings-manager->"Window Manager"

- select the theme Default-xhdpi (since Xfce 4.12 - [upgrade instructions for 
14.04](http://ubuntuportal.com/2015/03/how-to-upgrade-xfce-4-10-to-xfce-4-12-in-xubuntu-14-04-and-xubuntu-14-10.html))
- Set the Title Font to 12

- Download the [Widepanel 
Appearance](http://xfce-look.org/content/show.php/Widepanel?content=174213) ** 
in xfce4-settings-manager->"Appearance" select Widepanel
- In the File Manager thunar adapt the preferences:

- Set Iconsize in the sidepanel to "small" or "normal"

xfce4-display-settings command.
display resolution 3840x2400 in 
.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/displays.xml

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