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 …

There isnt a great overhead. Or you can: pacman -S xorg-xserver-xephyr pacman -S plasma-desktop #! /bin/bash Xephyr -br -ac -noreset -screen 1024x768 :1 & sleep 3 DISPLAY=:1 startplasma-x11 & I never presume to speak for the Qubes team. When I comment in the Forum I speak for myself.

You can use VNC if you just need the DE: [image] Automatic startup of Gnome environement General I think this is not the best approach. It produces a standalone and it removes one of the things that Qubes has worked hard to provide - the functionality between qubes. Do …

Interesting approach and thank you for sharing. Give me some time to study the entire thread. My first impression is that -xstartup /usr/bin/gnome-session is the crucial part of the tigervncserver invocation and I might be able to use that with Xnest :1 similarly. That would remove the vnc overhea…

Awesome. Thank you. Using Cinnamon with Xnest threw a lot of errors, but KDE and Cinnamon run out of the box with Xephyr. As explained in this article installing and especially running different DEs can break stuff: [image] Install Desktop Environments For ins…

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You can use VNC if you just need the DE: