Greetings Qubes community. I just finished installing Qubes on my laptop yesterday. It’s running ever so smoothly and I’m very excited about the whole experience.
So I noticed that when I install a new VM that I can’t run it full screen/maximized. Googled it. Found out that’s done on purpose as a security measure. However if you still want to run VM’s full screen or maximized, you can do so by editing the guid.conf file in /etc/qubes/. But Qubes isn’t allowing me to edit the file. Most likely this has to do with root access. Qubes recommends not creating a root account though. So I didn’t. Didn’t think I would need it anyway.
Is there another way to edit this file currently? Or do I have to reinstall and create the root account to do it?
Hi @Virtuel,
without editing guid.conf, you can manually switch a window to fullscreen with the Alt-F11 shortcut, see the last section of full-screen-mode:
Note: Regardless of the settings above, you can always put a window into fullscreen mode in Xfce4 using the trusted window manager by right-clicking on a window’s title bar and selecting “Fullscreen” or pressing alt + f11 .
Note: if you want to edit guid.conf, use sudo (sudo vim /etc/qubes/guid.conf).
Thank you for the response. I don’t remember how, but I somehow got it in my head that Vi was not installed. Wich is why I thought I could not open the file without root. I was using the cat command, hehe.
I had not gone online yet so I had no way of downloading packages either. Sorry for my mistake and I appreciate the help.
