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Here are some notes on how to use Qubes OS coming from Debian with awesome as window manager.

These notes are based on Qubes 3.0. Trying out 3.1 RC1 shall also be done.

First login

• At your choice: select XFCE as GUI and login. (It's also possible to skip installing KDE and just install XFCE.)

• update the system: sudo qubes-dom0-update

Base SystemVMs on Debian templates

• qvm-prefs -s sys-net template debian-8

• qvm-prefs -s sys-firewall template debian-8

• and in theory one now only needs to restart these VMs and that's it. However, that resulting in neither the wireless nor the firewall working, thus I'm not running this yet.

Making the disposable VM default to Debian

• qvm-create-default-dvm debian-8

Using 4.x kernels with Qubes 3.0

Qubes 3.0 comes with a 3.18 kernel by default. An update to 4.x kernels is easiest by installing the kernel package from the upcoming Qubes 3.1 release:

sudo qubes-dom0-update --releasever=3.1 kernel

or

sudo qubes-dom0-update --enablerepo=qubes-dom0-unstable kernel

using awesome for dom0

• install the package with sudo qubes-dom0-update awesome

• git clone https://github.com/woju/qubes-desktop-linux-awesome

• git clone https://github.com/woju/awesome-shifty

• adopt rc.lua somehow…

converting PDFs

• either use "convert pdf" via the context menu in nautilus

• or us qvm-convert-pdf from shell

updating the menu after adding applications to a VM

• run qvm-sync-appmenus

Improving the Debian templates

• some packages are not yet coming from Debian but from /etc/apt/sources.list.d/qubes-r3.list, so porbably those should be uploaded to sid…

• to be done: make a list, go through it one by one, file an ITP and upload to sid. h01ger is happy to help here.

Removing unused templates

• yum erase qubes-template-fedora[nnnn] -

(get a list with a grep on yum list installed)

Please note that this will unregister the template from Qubes and remove the files.

Taking screenshots

from Qubes 3.1 onwards one can use:

• hit the prtscn button

•  qvm-move-to-vm targevtmtogetthescreenshot /path/to/screenshot.png

VM networking

Each VM's internal IP address is generated from that VM's QID (a unique identifying number assigned to each VM upon creation). To see this, run (in dom0):

$ qvm-ls --network --ids

Cheatsheet

• https://github.com/Jeeppler/qubes-cheatsheet

Obsolete information from Qubes 3.0

Might still be useful in future again…

Install Debian Templates

• install wheezy template: sudo qubes-dom0-update qubes-template-debian-7

• install jessie template: sudo qubes-dom0-update qubes-template-debian-8

• create a stretch template based on the jessie one:

    qvm-clone debian-8 debian-9
    qvm-run -a debian-9 gnome-terminal
    // adjust /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list
    // unclear atm whether to use qubes-r3.list or qubes-r31.list
    apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

• repeat similarily to create a sid template.
• Take a look at /etc/apt/sources.list.d/qubes-r3.list - there is already a line to uncoment:

    deb [arch=amd64] http://deb.qubes-os.org/r3.1/vm scretch-testing main

"To be continued…"