Programmatic clean qube shutdown

Euwiiwueir · March 25, 2024, 2:28pm

I found this QoL post linking to this script:

tasket/Qubes-scripts/blob/master/halt-vm-by-window

#!/bin/bash

#CUR_WIN_ID=`xprop -root _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW |cut -d \# -f2`
CUR_WIN_ID=`xdotool getwindowfocus`
CUR_VM=`xprop _QUBES_VMNAME -id $CUR_WIN_ID |cut -d \" -f2`

#echo $CUR_VM 
#exit 0

#qvm-run $CUR_VM 'pkill firefox; pkill thunderbird; pkill icedove'; sleep 6
qvm-run $CUR_VM 'xdotool search --name "Mozilla Firefox" key ctrl+q'
qvm-run $CUR_VM 'xdotool search --name "Mozilla Thunderbird" key ctrl+q'
sleep 4
/usr/bin/qvm-shutdown $CUR_VM  --wait --timeout=40

And I tested that Tor Browser similarly can be exited by way of a local xdotool invocation:

[app-qube]$ xdotool search --onlyvisible --name 'Tor Browser' key --window '%1' ctrl+q

But I’d still prefer philosophically to leave the Whonix template unmodified, no additional xdotool package. It’s unfortunate that sending the Ctrl-Q to the remote window on dom0 doesn’t appear to propagate the key to the app qube’s X session.