Following this guide to build i3 from source for qubes. However, there is no build-deps.list file in the repo and I get stuck on this step
$ sudo dnf install -y $(cat build-deps.list)
If I just run this command
$ sudo qubes-dom0-update i3 i3-settings-qubes
instead of the installation from source then I don’t have a qubes menu in i3. So I assume that the compilation and installation from source properly will give me one?
The documentation is outdated. The correct way to build qubes-related packages is with qubes-builder.
First follow the instructions to set up the build environment from the github readme, and then use the following configuration:
git:
baseurl: https://github.com
prefix: QubesOS/qubes-
branch: main
maintainers:
# marmarek
- '0064428F455451B3EBE78A7F063938BA42CFA724'
# simon
- '274E12AB03F2FE293765FC06DA0434BC706E1FCF'
debug: true
verbose: true
qubes-release: r4.2
distributions:
- host-fc37
components:
- desktop-linux-i3
- desktop-linux-i3-settings-qubes
executor:
type: docker
options:
image: "qubes-builder-fedora:latest"
#executor:
# type: qubes
# options:
# dispvm: "qubes-builder-dvm"
stages:
- fetch
- prep
- build
Build with:
./qb package fetch prep build
After the thing runs for about 10 mins I get this…
18:50:36,840 [executor:docker:d882c6b79449] Error response from daemon: Could not find the file /builder/build/rpm/i3-settings-qubes-debugsource-1.10-1.fc37.x86_64.rpm in container d882c6b79449f88b06932f1530e8917e1e317c591dcf6f7454372250e5ce3289
18:50:36,840 [executor:docker:d882c6b79449] File not found inside container: /builder/build/rpm/i3-settings-qubes-debugsource-1.10-1.fc37.x86_64.rpm.
18:50:36,859 [executor:docker:d882c6b79449] Error response from daemon: Could not find the file /builder/build/rpm/i3-settings-qubes-debuginfo-1.10-1.fc37.x86_64.rpm in container d882c6b79449f88b06932f1530e8917e1e317c591dcf6f7454372250e5ce3289
18:50:36,859 [executor:docker:d882c6b79449] File not found inside container: /builder/build/rpm/i3-settings-qubes-debuginfo-1.10-1.fc37.x86_64.rpm.
18:50:37,165 [build_rpm] desktop-linux-i3-settings-qubes:host-fedora-37.x86_64:i3-settings-qubes.spec: Provisioning local repository '/home/user/qubes-builderv2/artifacts/repository/host-fc37'.
[user@builder qubes-builderv2]$ ls
README.md ci keys qubes-infrastructure-mirrors rpc
artifacts dockerfiles mypy.ini qubesbuilder tests
builder.yml example-configs qb qubesbuilder-cli tools
[user@builder qubes-builderv2]$
It’s expected.
The packages are located in artifacts/repository/host-fc37
I am now getting this error even though I have installed pkgconfig and perl. There were other dependencies that I installed and the error messages for them went away, but not those two.
Qubes OS Repository for Dom0 2.9 MB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
Error:
Problem: conflicting requests
- nothing provides perl(AnyEvent::I3) needed by i3-1000:4.23-1.fc37.src from @commandline
- nothing provides pkgconfig(glib-2.0) needed by i3-1000:4.23-1.fc37.src from @commandline
- nothing provides pkgconfig(gobject-2.0) needed by i3-1000:4.23-1.fc37.src from @commandline
- nothing provides pkgconfig(libstartup-notification-1.0) needed by i3-1000:4.23-1.fc37.src from @commandline
- nothing provides pkgconfig(xcb-cursor) needed by i3-1000:4.23-1.fc37.src from @commandline
- nothing provides pkgconfig(xcb-event) needed by i3-1000:4.23-1.fc37.src from @commandline
- nothing provides pkgconfig(xcb-icccm) needed by i3-1000:4.23-1.fc37.src from @commandline
- nothing provides pkgconfig(xcb-keysyms) needed by i3-1000:4.23-1.fc37.src from @commandline
- nothing provides pkgconfig(xcb-randr) needed by i3-1000:4.23-1.fc37.src from @commandline
- nothing provides pkgconfig(xcb-shape) needed by i3-1000:4.23-1.fc37.src from @commandline
- nothing provides pkgconfig(xcb-util) needed by i3-1000:4.23-1.fc37.src from @commandline
- nothing provides pkgconfig(xcb-xinerama) needed by i3-1000:4.23-1.fc37.src from @commandline
- nothing provides pkgconfig(xcb-xkb) needed by i3-1000:4.23-1.fc37.src from @commandline
- nothing provides pkgconfig(xcb-xrm) needed by i3-1000:4.23-1.fc37.src from @commandline
- nothing provides pkgconfig(cairo) >= 1.14.4 needed by i3-1000:4.23-1.fc37.src from @commandline
- nothing provides pkgconfig(pangocairo) >= 1.30.0 needed by i3-1000:4.23-1.fc37.src from @commandline
- nothing provides pkgconfig(xcb) >= 1.1.93 needed by i3-1000:4.23-1.fc37.src from @commandline
- nothing provides pkgconfig(xkbcommon) >= 0.4.0 needed by i3-1000:4.23-1.fc37.src from @commandline
- nothing provides pkgconfig(xkbcommon-x11) >= 0.4.0 needed by i3-1000:4.23-1.fc37.src from @commandline
- nothing provides pkgconfig(yajl) >= 2.0.1 needed by i3-1000:4.23-1.fc37.src from @commandline
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)
[star@dom0 i3_pkgs]$
Here are the packages that I have. I ignored the ones not ending in .rpm, but am I supposed to install all of these?
i3-4.23-1.fc37.x86_64.rpm i3-devel-4.23-1.fc37.x86_64.rpm i3-settings-qubes-1.10-1.fc37.src.rpm
i3-debuginfo-4.23-1.fc37.x86_64.rpm i3-devel-doc-4.23-1.fc37.noarch.rpm i3-settings-qubes-1.10-1.fc37.x86_64.rpm
Also, do I need i3 installed before installing the packages?
Try this in dom0:
sudo qubes-dom0-update xcb-util-cursor perl-AnyEvent-I3
Then try to install both i3-4.23-1.fc37.x86_64.rpm and i3-settings-qubes-1.10-1.fc37.x86_64.rpm again
sudo dnf install i3-4.23-1.fc37.x86_64.rpm i3-settings-qubes-1.10-1.fc37.x86_64.rpm
The first package works and I managed to install it. However, I get an odd “Could not open: i3-settings-qubes-1.10-1.fc37.x86_64.rpm” for the other package
Qubes OS Repository for Dom0 2.9 MB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
Dependencies resolved.
============================================================================================================
Package Architecture Version Repository Size
============================================================================================================
Installing:
i3 x86_64 1000:4.23-1.fc37 @commandline 374 k
Installing dependencies:
xcb-util-xrm x86_64 1.3-10.fc37 qubes-dom0-cached 16 k
Transaction Summary
============================================================================================================
Install 2 Packages
Total size: 390 k
Installed size: 1.0 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
Preparing : 1/1
Installing : xcb-util-xrm-1.3-10.fc37.x86_64 1/2
Installing : i3-1000:4.23-1.fc37.x86_64 2/2
Running scriptlet: i3-1000:4.23-1.fc37.x86_64 2/2
Verifying : xcb-util-xrm-1.3-10.fc37.x86_64 1/2
Verifying : i3-1000:4.23-1.fc37.x86_64 2/2
Installed:
i3-1000:4.23-1.fc37.x86_64 xcb-util-xrm-1.3-10.fc37.x86_64
Complete!
[star@dom0 i3_pkgs]$ sudo dnf install i3-settings-qubes-1.10-1.fc37.x86_64.rpm
Qubes OS Repository for Dom0 2.9 MB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
Can not load RPM file: i3-settings-qubes-1.10-1.fc37.x86_64.rpm.
Could not open: i3-settings-qubes-1.10-1.fc37.x86_64.rpm
Is the package in dom0 the same size as the one you built?
I got it working, and everything seems to be all good except for the qubes menu lol. I have all the icons and other stuff, just no menu. Is it included in the default config or do I have to modify the file in ~/.config/i3/config to somehow include it? Also, thanks for the help so far, really appreciate it
Do you have a “bar” part in your config (~/.config/i3/config)?
The default one should be based on qubes-i3status.
Do you have an output with this command in dom0?
which qubes-i3status
The output is /usr/bin/qubes-i3status
Anyway, I got dmenu working so I can navigate, but it doesn’t have the same utility as the qubes menu. I checked some other i3 qubes screenshots and things and none of them have the normal qubes app launcher. Maybe it isn’t available for i3?
Here is the bar part in my i3 config file
# Start i3bar to display a workspace bar (plus the system information i3status
# finds out, if available)
bar {
status_command qubes-i3status
colors {
background #d2d2d2
statusline #333333
#class #border #backgr #text
focused_workspace #3874d8 #63a0ff #333333
active_workspace #333333 #888888 #f5f5f5
inactive_workspace #888888 #333333 #888888
urgent_workspace #bd2727 #e79e27 #333333
}
}
I don’t think you can have the qubes menu with i3 out of the box. You need to have a “merged” setup with i3wm and some part of xfce4 running at the same time so you can have the xfce4-panel bar with the application menu.
One option is to launch the menu from an i3 bindsym, but it will be full screen instead of a small menu like in xfce4. It will also run in the background after the first execution, I’m not sure if it will reuse the already running process or open new ones.