Re: [qubes-users] Adding a Firefox add-on error to -dvm ?

2019-05-06 Thread Daniel Allcock
On Mon, 6 May 2019 10:58:47 -0700 (PDT) 22...@tutamail.com wrote: > Recently I noticed an add-on needed update and when I went to update > it, it says it was no longer compatible? I knew enough to start the > -dvm using gnome->terminal->firefox in -dvm however this time it > didn't allow me to upd

Re: [qubes-users] Backup Error: Warning: unrecognized data found in configuration files

2019-05-06 Thread Daniel Allcock
On Sun, 5 May 2019 20:24:07 + "'awokd' via qubes-users" wrote: > Eccentric Butterfly: > > When I go to backup my Qubes, the backup screen shows a red error > > at the bottom of the window saying "Warning: unrecognized data > > found in configuration files". I ran into this and it was innoc

[qubes-users] using "stow" to avoid templateVM "sudo make install"

2019-04-06 Thread Daniel Allcock
This is a tip for anyone who has ever felt queasy typing "sudo make install" to install some software. That gives total control of your machine (that VM) to whoever wrote the Makefile. Most packages (tarballs, github, etc) seem to assume you are happy doing this. It is usually possible to circumve

Re: [qubes-users] X events going to wrong VM?

2019-03-29 Thread Daniel Allcock
Thanks Mike, Your experience sounds even stranger than my own. I'm not sure whether it is more worrying---it's not so bad if the panel can read VM's events, since dom0 already reads all of them. But unexpected events being sent to dom0 sounds like a way to make dom0 do things possibly against us

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Tails

2019-03-29 Thread Daniel Allcock
> Interesting, but I tried TENS once (Open source OS similar to TAILS > developed by the US Air Force Research Labratory): > www.spi.dod.mil/index.htm > > There tech support was not very good:) and since it is a .mil domain > the https certificates are not trusted on their website... To be fair

[qubes-users] X events going to wrong VM?

2019-03-28 Thread Daniel Allcock
Hello, Something peculiar happens occasionally on my qubes 4.0 system. I run claws-mail in one VM, and mousing over the message list shows tooltips as intended (not very useful; they just repeat the text that is under the mouse). As I mouse up or down, the old tooltip disappears and a new one app

Re: [qubes-users] having to Install and run software twice?

2019-03-08 Thread Daniel Allcock
Hi Stuart, Just a guess, but perhaps this is it. I assume you are using dnf install in the usual way, not anything exotic. When you install software in the template, the AppVm doesn't "notice" until you restart it. Furthermore, it won't see the new software unless you shut down the template bef

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Fedora 29 HiDPI Resolution

2019-03-05 Thread Daniel Allcock
On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 00:25:40 -0800 (PST) Daniil Travnikov wrote: > Also on Fedora 29 Template I tried this command: > > [user@fedora-29-clone-1 ~]$ echo Xft.dpi: 220 | xrdb -merge > > and got this: > > :0: warning: Unknown encoding: C.UTF-8 I ran into this too, and as far as I can tell, it is

Re: [qubes-users] where/how does dom0 gets its icons? ANSWERED

2019-03-02 Thread Daniel Allcock
Thank you to unman for giving me the thread to follow. The way the icons are chosen could be improved easily. I'd be happy to contribute a patch if I knew the procedure for doing so. (It would not touch dom0.) To close out the thread, here is the answer to my question. The process of updating the

Re: [qubes-users] where/how does dom0 gets its icons?

2019-03-02 Thread Daniel Allcock
Thank you David. It seems, though, to be more complicated than that. > On 3/1/19 8:54 PM, Daniel Allcock wrote: > > Hello, > > I would like to understand what to do to customize the icons > > that appear in the Q menu for template and app vms. > > The only way I

[qubes-users] where/how does dom0 gets its icons?

2019-03-01 Thread Daniel Allcock
Hello, I would like to understand what to do to customize the icons that appear in the Q menu for template and app vms. The only way I have found that works is to overwrite icon files in /usr/share/icons/Adwaita/* in the template vm. In dom0 it is easy: I put an icon folder Qubes in ~/.icons, wit

[qubes-users] Borked template vm

2019-02-02 Thread Daniel Allcock
Hello all, I seem to have borked a template vm, to the point that no applications will start and I can't even use qvm-run from dom0 to do anything, not even touch a file. There is one directory in the root of the filesystem that contains a ton of config info that I would like to recover. I'd ap

Re: [qubes-users] Update/Removal

2018-10-11 Thread Daniel Allcock
On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 05:33:42 -0700 (PDT) liontr...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, October 11, 2018 at 5:41:26 AM UTC, Christophe Vial > wrote: > > You maybe still have fedora 26 set as default template VM in > > general qubes settings. That could be a reason why you can't remove > > it. > > > >

[qubes-users] session managers for VMs?

2018-09-22 Thread Daniel Allcock
Sometimes I need to shut down a qube I'm working in for some reason (changing out sys-net for a specialized sys-net, or closing sensitive material before working in a public place).  It would be nice to be able to come back to the same window setup I left, when restarting the qube. dom0 has th

[qubes-users] syncing config across qubes

2018-09-14 Thread Daniel Allcock
Dear all, I am wondering how you all deal with (for example) having an elaborate vim or emacs environment built up over several decades, and being able to use it in all of your regular everyday qubes (personal, work, untrusted, etc, probably leave vault out). Of course, you expect it to keep evol

[qubes-users] wifi password storage

2018-09-12 Thread Daniel Allcock
Dear All, Have been settling into my new qubes laptop and found that sys-net keeps my wifi password in plaintext in a file in a single directory (/rw/config/NM-system-connections) that survives reboot. Presumably as I add wifi networks such files will accumulate. This surprised me, since sys-ne