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January 16, 2023, 4:05pm
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What this is : hopefully a helpful resources for others. I compiled this resources for certain beginner problems I ran into on my way to switch all my fedora-xx template based qubes to fedora-xx-minimal template.
What this is not : a guide to tweak everything to the most minimal regarding RAM, CPU and HD usage.
Networking including wifi, usb, audio and video playback now works. Not surprising: most problems I ran into were due to missing packages.
Problems with networking in general:
The minimal templates are lightweight versions of their standard template counterparts. They have only the most vital packages installed, including a minimal X and xterm installation. When properly configured and used, minimal templates can be less...
–> Fedora
Problem template asks for password when using sudo (passwordless-root):
The minimal templates are lightweight versions of their standard template counterparts. They have only the most vital packages installed, including a minimal X and xterm installation. When properly configured and used, minimal templates can be less...
–> Passwordless root
Problem audio and/or video playback not working or very jerky:
I wanted to switch to minimal templates for two reasons: to see if it is possible and to improve my video (browser & dvd) playback, which is a bit jerky especially in horizontal moving scenes…
BUT
Video playback in firefox (in a fedora minimal qube) is even more jerky and slow as before (unwatchable even if I wait long), sometimes videos do not load at all and youtube recommends to restart the machine, something I have not seen before. When doing the same in a normal fedora (not minimal) qube …
Problem with installing from certain repositories (e.g. rpmfusion-free-release-tainted):
Qubes wrote:
Is the documentation on this [page] to enable the rpmfusion repos still
relevant?
Doing “sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled rpmfusion-free”, gives me
an error, “Error: No matching repo to modify: rpmfusion-free”.
This appears to be specific to the Fedora-xx-minimal template. I don’t
know why, can someone give me a pointer?
Fedora minimal will not include the rpmfusion-.repo file/repo because it’s supposed to be “minimal” while the rpmfusion are “extras”. You can of cou…
Did you follow instructions from the links I posted above? It’s all there
$ sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
$ sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
?
https://rpmfusion.org/Configuration
https://rpmfusion.org/keys
further resource:
Any help welcome, so I use Qubes 4.1 on my x220
dom0: 1560 MB ram
sys-net: 384 MB ram
sys-firewall-mirage: 60 MB ram
sys-vpn-wireguard: 384 MB ram
sys-whonix: 384 MB ram (never used)
sys-usb: 284 MB ram
any minimal web browsing surf vm (firefox, qutebrowser) ~ 400MB
any minimal programming vm (neovim) ~ 400MB
so I have < 8GB memory used on my laptop,
56 cpu and 6 hours of battery
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