Re: [qubes-users] Documentation on how to setup programs or appvms to open links files in DVMs?
On 12/1/18 3:36 PM, Stumpy wrote: On 12/1/18 1:29 AM, Ivan Mitev wrote: On 12/1/18 2:08 AM, Stumpy wrote: Are there any documents that tell how to setup either individual programs, or better, appvms to open links, files, etc in DVMs? I would love to have the VM that I use for webmail to automatically open links or files in the webmails in a DVM, preferably with a context menu or something like that gives a choice of regular dvm or whonix dvm. There is :) https://github.com/Qubes-Community/Contents/blob/master/docs/common-tasks/opening-urls-in-vms.md Feel free to improve the doc if you find things that aren' clear. I found Micha Lee's page which covers this but perhaps parts of it are qubes 3.2 centric and dont work quite the same on 4.0? Perhaps there are some other .desktop examples out there or a 4.0 guide on doing this? Anyway. I tried something like: qvm-open-in-vm fedora-28-dvm https://startpage.com and it worked, or the window popped up and I had to select fedora-28-dvm I made a .desktop like instructed containing: [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=BrowserVM Exec=qvm-open-in-vm fedora-28-dvm %u Terminal=false X-MultipleArgs=false Type=Application Categories=Network;WebBrowser; MimeType=x-scheme-handler/unknown;x-scheme-handler/about;text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;application/rss+xml;application/rdf+xml;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/png;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https; but when I tried to use xdg-settings set default-web-browser ./local/share/applications/browser_vm.desktop it tells me: xdg-settings: invalid application name Try 'xdg-settings --help' for more information. You shouldn't use the full path. This should work: xdg-settings set default-web-browser browser_vm.desktop So. Am i doing something wrong in the .desktop or in using xdg-settings and is there a way to have it bypass the window that asks which target VM, or at least pulls that target vm up (as I already specified which target vm I wanted to send it to via qvm-open-in-vm fedora-28-dvm Yes there is a way, you have to edit some dom0 RPC permissions to reflect your setup (it's in the doc too). Ivan Wow, thats quite long, perferct! I will check it out? Is it listed on the Qubes Docs page? The doc is not in the official docs - yet. The Qubes Community project is supposed to be a "staging" area for docs that may one day make it to the official docs. It's also a collection of links and resources. More info at: https://qubes-community.github.io/ -- 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 qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/5ae7d920-f5aa-5b54-3f92-66196cda436d%40maa.bz. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [qubes-users] Documentation on how to setup programs or appvms to open links files in DVMs?
On 12/1/18 1:29 AM, Ivan Mitev wrote: On 12/1/18 2:08 AM, Stumpy wrote: Are there any documents that tell how to setup either individual programs, or better, appvms to open links, files, etc in DVMs? I would love to have the VM that I use for webmail to automatically open links or files in the webmails in a DVM, preferably with a context menu or something like that gives a choice of regular dvm or whonix dvm. There is :) https://github.com/Qubes-Community/Contents/blob/master/docs/common-tasks/opening-urls-in-vms.md Feel free to improve the doc if you find things that aren' clear. I found Micha Lee's page which covers this but perhaps parts of it are qubes 3.2 centric and dont work quite the same on 4.0? Perhaps there are some other .desktop examples out there or a 4.0 guide on doing this? Anyway. I tried something like: qvm-open-in-vm fedora-28-dvm https://startpage.com and it worked, or the window popped up and I had to select fedora-28-dvm I made a .desktop like instructed containing: [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=BrowserVM Exec=qvm-open-in-vm fedora-28-dvm %u Terminal=false X-MultipleArgs=false Type=Application Categories=Network;WebBrowser; MimeType=x-scheme-handler/unknown;x-scheme-handler/about;text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;application/rss+xml;application/rdf+xml;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/png;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https; but when I tried to use xdg-settings set default-web-browser ./local/share/applications/browser_vm.desktop it tells me: xdg-settings: invalid application name Try 'xdg-settings --help' for more information. You shouldn't use the full path. This should work: xdg-settings set default-web-browser browser_vm.desktop So. Am i doing something wrong in the .desktop or in using xdg-settings and is there a way to have it bypass the window that asks which target VM, or at least pulls that target vm up (as I already specified which target vm I wanted to send it to via qvm-open-in-vm fedora-28-dvm Yes there is a way, you have to edit some dom0 RPC permissions to reflect your setup (it's in the doc too). Ivan Wow, thats quite long, perferct! I will check it out? Is it listed on the Qubes Docs page? -- 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 qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/9b0f1c94-a16e-8a6d-9544-3991ed90b247%40posteo.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [qubes-users] Documentation on how to setup programs or appvms to open links files in DVMs?
On 12/1/18 2:08 AM, Stumpy wrote: Are there any documents that tell how to setup either individual programs, or better, appvms to open links, files, etc in DVMs? I would love to have the VM that I use for webmail to automatically open links or files in the webmails in a DVM, preferably with a context menu or something like that gives a choice of regular dvm or whonix dvm. There is :) https://github.com/Qubes-Community/Contents/blob/master/docs/common-tasks/opening-urls-in-vms.md Feel free to improve the doc if you find things that aren' clear. I found Micha Lee's page which covers this but perhaps parts of it are qubes 3.2 centric and dont work quite the same on 4.0? Perhaps there are some other .desktop examples out there or a 4.0 guide on doing this? Anyway. I tried something like: qvm-open-in-vm fedora-28-dvm https://startpage.com and it worked, or the window popped up and I had to select fedora-28-dvm I made a .desktop like instructed containing: [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=BrowserVM Exec=qvm-open-in-vm fedora-28-dvm %u Terminal=false X-MultipleArgs=false Type=Application Categories=Network;WebBrowser; MimeType=x-scheme-handler/unknown;x-scheme-handler/about;text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;application/rss+xml;application/rdf+xml;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/png;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https; but when I tried to use xdg-settings set default-web-browser ./local/share/applications/browser_vm.desktop it tells me: xdg-settings: invalid application name Try 'xdg-settings --help' for more information. You shouldn't use the full path. This should work: xdg-settings set default-web-browser browser_vm.desktop So. Am i doing something wrong in the .desktop or in using xdg-settings and is there a way to have it bypass the window that asks which target VM, or at least pulls that target vm up (as I already specified which target vm I wanted to send it to via qvm-open-in-vm fedora-28-dvm Yes there is a way, you have to edit some dom0 RPC permissions to reflect your setup (it's in the doc too). Ivan -- 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 qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/5a99ccec-f250-36c2-96fe-66e54e4d3286%40maa.bz. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[qubes-users] Documentation on how to setup programs or appvms to open links files in DVMs?
Are there any documents that tell how to setup either individual programs, or better, appvms to open links, files, etc in DVMs? I would love to have the VM that I use for webmail to automatically open links or files in the webmails in a DVM, preferably with a context menu or something like that gives a choice of regular dvm or whonix dvm. I found Micha Lee's page which covers this but perhaps parts of it are qubes 3.2 centric and dont work quite the same on 4.0? Perhaps there are some other .desktop examples out there or a 4.0 guide on doing this? Anyway. I tried something like: qvm-open-in-vm fedora-28-dvm https://startpage.com and it worked, or the window popped up and I had to select fedora-28-dvm I made a .desktop like instructed containing: [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=BrowserVM Exec=qvm-open-in-vm fedora-28-dvm %u Terminal=false X-MultipleArgs=false Type=Application Categories=Network;WebBrowser; MimeType=x-scheme-handler/unknown;x-scheme-handler/about;text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;application/rss+xml;application/rdf+xml;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/png;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https; but when I tried to use xdg-settings set default-web-browser ./local/share/applications/browser_vm.desktop it tells me: xdg-settings: invalid application name Try 'xdg-settings --help' for more information. So. Am i doing something wrong in the .desktop or in using xdg-settings and is there a way to have it bypass the window that asks which target VM, or at least pulls that target vm up (as I already specified which target vm I wanted to send it to via qvm-open-in-vm fedora-28-dvm -- 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 qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/1d5583a1-9bd1-c988-e0de-d7608d1a947d%40posteo.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
