When I try to copy file in Thunar from dom0 to the other VM there is no “copy to other VM” popup. The popup shows in the other non - dom0 VMs. Is there the way to turn on copying functionality in Thunar ? I would rather use Thunar instead of qvm-copy or qvm-copy-to-vm from terminal.
In general copying to dom0 however copying from dom0 should be ok. As I understand from above howto there is nothing wrong in copying from more secure to the less secure. I see a dom0 as more or even - the most secure.
Well, it is exactly the same issue. I’m making a lot of screenshots in dom0 and I need to copy some of them easily. So I open Thunar with directory where the screenshots are being stored and I’m stuck there unable to to do anything besides browsing them in the terminal and doing qvm-copy on each one or tar/zip archive and qvm-copy them.
I believe it would be wrong to implement menu items in dom0 Thunar just to copy screenshots – because hopefully soon there should appear a dedicated screenshot tool for that and because such copying should not be encouraged anyway.
Meanwhile, you can try to use a Cron job in dom0 as a workaround. See for details this and this. I’m no expert, so unfortunately can’t help with the exact scripts.
It is very straightforward to create a menu item to copy to a fixed VM, though I don’t know how to bring up the VM picker. (Or just have one menu item per commonly-used destination VM, there’s your “picker”).
Did you actually made one for your Thunar?
Because I created a custom copy-to-vm action long time ago, and still can’t find related menu item anywhere.
I’m afraid that doing some custom modifications in dom0 can be hard to maintain as dom0 is a part of Qubes. In simple words all these modifications can be overwritten during the update.