How can we get the Start/Windows keyboard button to open the Qubes Menu on the top left?

Droplet6200 · May 14, 2024, 2:25pm

How can I get the Start button to open the qubes menu that opens if you click the logo on the top left?

Alternatively, would it be possible set the Start button to to display all running qubes like it does on Fedora?

ludovic · May 15, 2024, 12:28pm

Qubes Menu > System Tools > Keyboard > Application shortcuts tab, add an entry for Super L shortcut with the qubes-app-menu command.

The below ideas could help :

Qubes Manager with the Running filter
qubes-app-menu with the favorites page (see qubes-app-menu --help).
the Qubes Domains icon in the XFCE tray bar shows the running qubes (but I don’t know how to map a keybard shortcut to a widget)
the XFCE panel shows the opened windows for the current workspace
middle-click on the XFCE background show all the windows for all the workspaces (so the running qubes with a window).

For the last alternative or Qubes Domains, if you find the dedicated command, you could map it to an Application shortcut.

Bearillo · May 15, 2024, 12:57pm

Save the following script to dom0, make it executable and set up a keyboard shortcut that calls it with the domains argument. If called with the devices argument, it will open the devices widget. In both cases they can immediately be navigated with the keyboard.

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/UndeadDevel/ef7d86118b83ae4bab68243fc38c51f6

widget-click.sh

#!/bin/bash
# call with argument 'devices' or 'domains'
sleep 0.1
eval $(xdotool search --onlyvisible --name "qui-$1" getwindowgeometry --shell)
xdotool mousemove $X $Y click 1 mousemove restore

For opening the app menu with the keyboard in a way that avoids certain bugs:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/UndeadDevel/8501e82a534e5daa2ac60e36945167b9

qubes-menu.sh

#!/bin/bash

eval $(xdotool getmouselocation --shell)
xdotool mousemove 5 5
gdbus call --session --dest org.qubesos.appmenu --object-path "/org/qubesos/appmenu" --method org.freedesktop.Application.Activate "{}" &&
xdotool mousemove 100 125 mousemove 130 130 mousemove restore # fixes issue #9006
sleep 0.25
if [ $X -lt 720 ]; then
	X=720	# prevent the mouse from selecting items in the app menu when opening it with the keyboard (issue #8789)
fi

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joe.blough · May 24, 2024, 12:27am

Does anyone know the command for the old 4.1 app menu? I use both the old 4.1 and new 4.2 app menu, one on the left end of the panel and one on the right end.