Qubes / I3WM

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Hi,
Looking at qubes-desktop-linux-i3, the latest version of i3 for qubes is 4.18.2, which is quite a lot behind the latest official, 4.21 (see version info).

So two questions:

  1. What is the status of qubes-desktop-linux-i3 ? Is it maintained, or “somewhat maintained but not on a regular basis” or is it abandoned?
  2. I would like to try building/installing a more recent package. There are some docs here, but I assume they are not fully up to date. Is there any else I should be aware of, like, integration issues preventing use of more recent i3?
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In latest Debian stable, i3-wm is 4.19.1-1. Again too old.

I have a question too, nevertheless: Is dom0 abandoned, since it is still based on fedora-32?

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No.

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Thanks @fsflover.
What would you rather do? To install and use older version of a program signed by Qubes, or would compile newer one yourself and install it in dom0?

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I would try to avoid installing anything in dom0. Although I’m using the older version of redshift.

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Thanks, me too…

Me too, and partitionmanager at the beginning to visually get what is going on with space in dom0 and other qubes. And I find it too much already.

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Gotten a bit more into qubes-builder now, to be able to actually build i3wm myself. However, I’m running into some qubes-builder problem,

Getting sources for i3 and builder-debian works fine, but getting the sources for builder does not work:

[user@work qubes-builder]$ make COMPONENTS="builder" get-sources
-> Updating sources for builder...
--> Fetching from https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-builder.git master...
--> Verifying tags...
---> No valid signed tag found!
---> One invalid tag: 8a827c76f8690c5d08641865256f99ebc96d69cb
make: *** [Makefile:228: builder.get-sources] Error 1

After investigating a bit more, this seems to be the problem:

[user@work qubes-builder]$ git tag "--points-at=b7021ac566abccd659dd932f2f557ee90105db4f" "--format=%(if:equals=tag)%(objecttype)%(then)%(objectname):%(object):%(end)"
8a827c76f8690c5d08641865256f99ebc96d69cb:b7021ac566abccd659dd932f2f557ee90105db4f:
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You can build qubes os from scratch with i3wm defaults. I do this. Guide is here:

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Thank you @tanky0u!

That guide helped a lot, mainly helped with getting a minimal working builder.conf going. After that I was able to repro the gitlab-builds, and I think I got this PR to finally build ok: Update i3 to 4.21 by holiman · Pull Request #50 · QubesOS/qubes-desktop-linux-i3 · GitHub

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