I cannot open any qubes

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Main error I find on .xsession-errors
`Thunar:8565): thunar-Warning **: 09:57:24.887 :Failed to launch the volume manager (Failed to execute child process “thunar-volman” (No such file or directory)), make sure you hace the thunar-volman package installed.
I don’t know if this is related or not but:

So I need also in my keyboard multiple languages. Thus I tried doing it with multiple ways

  • I tried with i3 config exec --no-startup-id setxkbmap -layout 'us,fr' -option 'grp:alt_space_toggle'
  • I tried using the recommended way from qubes doc localectl set-x11-keymap us,fr pc105 , grp:alt_shift_toggle
  • I tried even by installing on debian templates sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration which failed and in the end I put on the .bashrc of the appqube a setxkbmap -layout 'us,fr' -option 'grp:alt_space_toggle' and worked.

The above might be all irrelevant (except that on debian when I was doing sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration it was failing as it couldn’t find a keyboard? or a relevant Error that I don’t remember from heart.

Today As I restarted my machine I tried to initialize it with i3 but now vm would start, I thought maybe it was some issue with i3 so I switched to xfce, rebooted and it failed to show anything on the screen.
Rebooted again, went directly to xfce, but again vm would show on the tray starting but I cannot open a terminal on them, or browser or anything.

I am logged-in here, from another pc currently.
Let me know which logs I should provide!

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So it seems that after checking on Qubes global config, in the usb input devices, some policies have been changed (don’t know how or when?!?).
After changing back to allow some mouse and keyboard controllers to connect to dom0 and rebooted the machine on xfce wm seems to work properly(more or less).
I will check again with the i3 if everything is working.

EDIT: UPDATE

So i3wm doesn’t work properly. Also sometimes in xfce when connected to an external monitor with hdmi, and I restart the sys-usb it blanks out completely the laptop screen and the external monitor becomes green.
I have to restart the laptop in order to fix this.

On i3wm I have screen tearing (or flashes every 10 seconds or something) when I connect to external monitor.
I installed picom as I found from another post as a solution but it doesn’t seem to solve it.
Finally my laptop show less RAM than it is supposed to.
It is a WIN max 2 with supposedly 62 Gb of RAM
my report:

qubes-hcl-report 
pcilib: Error reading /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:08.3/label: Operation not permitted

Qubes release 4.3.0

Brand:		GPD
Model:		G1619-04
BIOS:		0.41

Xen:		4.19.4
Kernel:		6.12.63-1

RAM:		48958 Mb

CPU:
  AMD Ryzen 7 8840U w/ Radeon 780M Graphics
Chipset:
  Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Phoenix Root Complex [1022:14e8]
VGA:
  Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] HawkPoint1 [1002:1900] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

Net:
  Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6E(802.11ax) AX210/AX1675* 2x2 [Typhoon Peak] [8086:2725] (rev 1a)

SCSI:


HVM:		Active
I/O MMU:	Active
HAP/SLAT:	Yes
TPM:		Device present (TPM 2.0)
Remapping:	yes
Certified:	no

Qubes HCL Files are copied to: 'dom0'
	Qubes-HCL-GPD-G1619_04-20260130-075722.yml		- HCL Info

UPDATE 2

lower the UMA Frame Buffer on BIOS settings

Update 3
I finally managed to use i3wm without screen tearing.
No idea how it was solved. (Maybe new kernel update?)
Maybe this: Screen flickering using i3wm in 4.1.1

Final issue is the changing of keyboard language on VMs
you can follow here: I3WM keyboard layout passthrought from dom0 to vms

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