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XFCE installtion in dom0

Disclaimer: XFCE isn't fully integrated with Qubes environment, it still require notable amount of manual configuration after install

Requirements (as of 10/24/2012):

• qubes-core-dom0-2.0.37 (not released yet, possible to build from "master" branch of marmarek's repo)

Installation:

{% highlight trac-wiki %} qubes-dom0-update --enablerepo=qubes-dom0-unstable @XFCE {% endhighlight %}

Then you need to create /etc/sysconfig/desktop to stay with KDM, as GDM still starts invalid Xorg startup script:

{% highlight trac-wiki %} DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE {% endhighlight %}

Reboot the system. At system startup, select "Xfce session" in login screen (menu on the right bottom corner of the screen).

Configuration

Things needs/recommended to be done:

• remove some useless entries from menu and panel, especially file manager, web browser
• create own favorites menu (currently standard XFCE menu isn't modified to use per-VM subsections, which makes it very inconvenient):

  1. create ~/.config/menus/favorites.menu, example content:

     {% highlight trac-wiki %}

     Favorites

     <Directory>favorites.directory</Directory>
     <Include>
         <Filename>personal-gnome-terminal.desktop</Filename>
         <Filename>personal-firefox.desktop</Filename>
         <Filename>work-gnome-terminal.desktop</Filename>
         <Filename>work-firefox.desktop</Filename>
         <Filename>mail-mozilla-thunderbird.desktop</Filename>
         <Filename>mail-gnome-terminal.desktop</Filename>
         <Filename>banking-mozilla-firefox.desktop</Filename>
         <Filename>untrusted-firefox.desktop</Filename>
     </Include>
     

     {% endhighlight %}

  2. add it to the panel: right click on panel, "add new items", select "XFCE menu", choose custom menu file - just created one