I’m rather new on QubesOS and one of my use cases requires publicly displaying running VMs next to each other in a presentation.
I have two HVMs. One of them being a Windows VM displaying the login screen and then the Windows Desktop. The second one is a Linux HVM. For several reasons I would like to use the Linux VM in PVH-mode instead. As you know in PVH-mode there is no DE. Therefore I tried to create a script starting a DE:
This is a starting point but the problem I’m facing looks like this:
No matter what kind of desktop I install with pacman (I’m using arch, btw ) there seems to be no meta-package installing an entire desktop environment with a modern look&feel. All distros nowadays deliver init scripts, setups, icons, backgrounds, screen-saver and -locker during their install. If one wants to install the DE later these are missing.
Anyone having an idea how to address this? Openbox does not have to be the desktop of choice. It looks like PVHs on Qubes are performant enough to run a KDE or a Gnome environment as well.
Edit: it looks like only openbox needs to be setup by hand. Plasma and Cinnamon bring along most of their own stuff.