I’ve decided to try and make Qubes a bit nicer to use. I’ve seen many references to AwesomeWM so I thought that I’d try that and see if I like it. I ran the qubes-dom0-update command and installed it, however I see no difference. The documentation claims that I should see it as a choice after logging out but I have the same login prompt that I’ve always had with just the username and password. And Qubes still loads up XFCE. Is there something else I need to do to activate it?
If this fails I’ll try KDE but I’m a little worried I’ll hit the same issue if I can’t work this out.
On the login screen look to the top right. There are multiple icons there. One of them likely says “XF” currently. Click it and select the window manager you want to use.
Thanks. This was the answer. I missed it as the top bar is miniscule on a 4K monitor. Qubes really needs to work on its scaling.
I got into AwesomeWM but in its default configuration it is pretty much unuseable so I’ll probably try KDE.
Problems with it include but not limited to;
No logout/poweroff
No settings
Application names in menu prepend the VM name and then truncate so you only see the first couple of letters of the BBC actual application if you’re lucky.
Top bar is miniscule so difficult to use
I’m sure many of these things are configurable but I’m surprised it doesn’t have a half sensible default
The new menu looks excellent and exactly what I’m looking for. I can get it to start from the CLI but how do you get the process to start with the system? A systemd script doesn’t seem like the right way. It’s there another kind of autostart system thst I need to add it to?
