Re: [qubes-users] Re: First impressions

2016-12-05 Thread Andrew David Wong
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On 2016-12-05 18:49, raahe...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Sunday, December 4, 2016 at 2:52:05 PM UTC-5, Eva Star wrote:
>> On 12/03/2016 07:20 PM, raahe...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> In KDE it was much easier to make shortcuts to launch specific apps right 
>>> in the menu.  XFCE unfortunately does not make this easy anymore.  You 
>>> actually have to edit a cfg file to do it, but its possible.
>>
>> It's not true. It's easy to create shortcuts menu. Right click on 
>> toolbar, then New Item> then Launcher. After it will be visible you can 
>> change settings and add shortcuts with right click > properties
>>
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>> Regards
> 
> I'm talking about the applications menu.  what is the "toolbar" you are 
> talking about?  All I know of to edit the menu in xfce is to use alt f3. But 
> that only lets you edit existing entries,  not create new ones.
> 

Eva is referring to what is called a "panel" in Xfce. By default, there is a 
panel that horizontally spans the top of the screen. You can right-click on 
this panel to add new "Items" to it, one of which is a "Launcher." The 
"Launcher" can be used to start apps inside AppVMs with one or two clicks. I 
find this very convenient, since I have a lot of VMs and there's no way (that 
I've found) to create submenus in the main "Applications Menu."

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Re: [qubes-users] Re: First impressions

2016-12-05 Thread raahelps
On Sunday, December 4, 2016 at 2:52:05 PM UTC-5, Eva Star wrote:
> On 12/03/2016 07:20 PM, raahe...@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > In KDE it was much easier to make shortcuts to launch specific apps right 
> > in the menu.  XFCE unfortunately does not make this easy anymore.  You 
> > actually have to edit a cfg file to do it, but its possible.
> 
> It's not true. It's easy to create shortcuts menu. Right click on 
> toolbar, then New Item> then Launcher. After it will be visible you can 
> change settings and add shortcuts with right click > properties
> 
> -- 
> Regards

I'm talking about the applications menu.  what is the "toolbar" you are talking 
about?  All I know of to edit the menu in xfce is to use alt f3. But that only 
lets you edit existing entries,  not create new ones.

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Re: [qubes-users] Re: First impressions

2016-12-04 Thread Eva Star

On 12/03/2016 07:20 PM, raahe...@gmail.com wrote:


In KDE it was much easier to make shortcuts to launch specific apps right in 
the menu.  XFCE unfortunately does not make this easy anymore.  You actually 
have to edit a cfg file to do it, but its possible.


It's not true. It's easy to create shortcuts menu. Right click on 
toolbar, then New Item> then Launcher. After it will be visible you can 
change settings and add shortcuts with right click > properties


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[qubes-users] Re: First impressions

2016-12-03 Thread raahelps
On Saturday, December 3, 2016 at 8:07:58 AM UTC-5, Ray Brainer wrote:
> This is my first week of usage and impressions about the Qubes.
> The idea of isolation seemed wonderful before using it.
> Now I find very unhandy what I deal with in Qubes.
> 
> 1) No way of desktop sharing, though I need it very much. I read some ideas 
> on the point here  
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/qubes-users/-JEfgOF-TaI/kIU_JCmUCAAJ
> It sounds almost impossible. I use Zoom and Viber to share screen. Have no 
> idea of screen forwarding to a VM.
> 
> 2) Cross-clipboard operations don't work by any means. Cross-usage of 
> applications, user-generated shortcuts to apps - everything seems a problem.
> 3) Appear empty windows I've never seen before in usual apps like Skype, 
> qbittorrent, VLC etc.
> 4) No free space for software and libraries. There is a huge risk of loosing 
> data when resizing images. I lost it twice, though I repeated every step from 
> the guide.
> 5) Templates are based on pretty specific distros like Fedora and Debian. It 
> takes time for Arch and Windows templates to create.
> 6) It is not very easy to direct webcam on a particular VM.
> 
> Again, the idea is excellent. If there is a way to save my time on points 1-3 
> I would be thankful.

I don't know anything about screen sharing.  But what do you mean cross 
clipboard operations don't work? 
cross usage applications sounds like defeats purpose of isolation but I might 
be misunderstanding you. 

I've never seen empty windows appearing in vlc.  weird.

In KDE it was much easier to make shortcuts to launch specific apps right in 
the menu.  XFCE unfortunately does not make this easy anymore.  You actually 
have to edit a cfg file to do it, but its possible.

I never lost any data increasing a vm size.

I do have a win7 vm, and it was indeed little tricky to install. Took me two 
tries to get windows tools working.but Linux is linux to me though.  I use 
debian as well as fedora simply for packages available in debian not in fedora. 
 But those two distros pretty much have everything covered for me in linux 
world and imo and are the two best regarding general security.  Arch was always 
my distro of choice for traditional vms cause its very minimal by default,  but 
I have no need for it in qubes.

Yes you can only direct webcam to appvm with terminal command for now.  I'm 
sure they will include a way in qubes-manager eventually.

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