• Distribution: QubesOS 4.3
  • Desktop Environment: Xfce
  • Theme: Redmond97-SE
  • Window Manager: Xmonad
  • Terminal: xterm + tmux
  • Launcher: Rofi1
  • Bar: xfce4-panel

Windows

Top-left to bottom right:

  1. neovim “IDE” with integrated terminal editing dotfiles (Debian)
  2. dom0 admin terminal (Fedora)
  3. Qubes Manager looking at some templates (Fedora)
  4. Thunar File manager about to move a file between qubes (Whonix)
  5. Konform Browser browsing codeberg (Arch Linux)

Each app and window can belong to a separate qube (Xen VM), visually discriminated by differing color schemes.

Thanks to Ben Grandes qusal which was very helpful as base for setting things up.

This is a setup optimized for productivity and efficiency, which is reflected in the lack of eye-candy and gratuitous margins.

1: Not pictured - I figured the screenshot was busy enough. If y’all want to see more LMK.

  • ken@discuss.tchncs.deOP
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    A tangent but in response to something I see around here and the webs recently:

    People who say Wayland is ready for everyone and that X11 is no longer of relevance - that distros and projects like KDE dropping and deprecating it is A Good Thing: How do I replicate this in Wayland without having to loosen security boundaries or lose out on core features? Or at all?

    Not shown in screenshot but sometimes I also run GUI apps or a nested WM (to get the “classic” VM experience with a windowed or fullscreened isolated desktop) in containers. Also obviously need things like remote screen sharing without having to run such apps in dom0 and Input Method integration for non-latin typing. Even with people working on some parts of that already and some ad-hoc early-stage solutions existing, I don’t see it happening this decade… My setup works great for now and I’d hate to have integral parts of it getting fully abandoned or dropped from upstream distros like Fedora or Arch if no drop-in replacements exist. Why the push for deprecation? :/

    Next time you see someone saying that Wayland isn’t ready for them, maybe take their word for it instead of downvoting and demanding justification? Think about how much I had to expose myself above just to be able to try to make a point. When we’re in the long tail of remaining use-cases, they get detailed enough that you can’t explain them without getting personal and very profileable.

    • Sam, The Man@infosec.pub
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      I love X11 and I love your passion for it! You’re right, and the benefit of Linux is that we all get to be a little picky about the bits that make up our OS.