How to make qubes more keyboard friendly?

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Same as other users, I use the XFCE keyboard shortcuts, some example:

  • Right MS-Windows key launch a firefox from DispVM (Super R → qvm-run -q -a --service --dispvm=fedora-35-dvm -- qubes.StartApp+firefox)
  • Left MS-Windows key launch the Whisker menu, then I input the first letters of the wanted VM application (Super L → xfce4-popup-whiskermenu)
  • create scripts and map them to shortcuts (as @baflya ), me I hide/show the cursor
  • add .desktop entries in the VMs and launch them from dom0 with XFCE shortcuts (Ctrl-Alt+T → qvm-run -q -a --service -- VM1 qubes.StartApp+org.gnome.TerminalVTop and in VM1 a org.gnome.TerminalVTop desktop entry with [1]):

[1]

[user@VM1 ~]$ grep ^Exec .local/share/applications/org.gnome.TerminalVTop.desktop 
Exec=gnome-terminal --geometry=100x45+950+200

Note: Whisker is an XFCE alternative menu, search in this forum…