If you interested in learning how to build qubes without much effort, take a look at Playing with Qubes
As example if you want to remove building templates, you can do :
- Delete fedora, whonix, and debian build
- sed -i ‘/@whonix/d’ qubes-src/installer-qubes-os/conf/qubes-kickstart.cfg
- sed -i ‘/@debian/d’ qubes-src/installer-qubes-os/conf/qubes-kickstart.cfg
- sed -i ‘/@fedora/d’ qubes-src/installer-qubes-os/conf/qubes-kickstart.cfg
And take a look at what inside qubes-kickstart config, as you can see there’s :
- @xfce-desktop-qubes
- @xfce-extra-plugins
- @xfce-media
I simply remove them, and add i3 package in comps-dom0, since i3 need xorg-x11-fonts-misc package, we remove excluded package in this file
And here’s qubes with i3 :
Actually I wanted to play with this and Improve Playing with Qubes with this guide along with the video like the Playing with qubes part 2, and removed some packages that I never used.