Startup script after boot and login to automate which VMs I start with which apps and which partitions I attach to which VMs

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@QubesUser32

Automatically arrange windows within workspaces on XFCE (e.g., media windows go to workspace #3)

Quoting unman from another thread:

@unman

Don’t mix usage after you have set up the qubes in their groups: guard
against accidental use. Anything you can do to help enforce this would
be good. Have multiple desktops. Colour code them. Force qubes to
appear on the relevant desktops. (Switch to KDE, and use Activities to
make this simple.)

You can also make this with i3wm, but I think this conversation deserves its own thread as there may be other (even better) ways to do it.

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For complex configurations like these, using a configuration management engine like SaltSack may be a better bet – and Qubes is integrated with SaltStack (but It’s quite different from Bash scripts). In case you haven’t come across it, take a look here:

Salt (management software)

This will make your life easier (in the long run) thanks to the increase maintainability.

Bash scripts often break because you changed a tiny thing manually on your setup. Whereas with salt you instead of describing the steps to achieve your desired config (imperative) you describe how your desired config looks like (declarative). So if something changes in the path to get to your desired state, salt will manage that for you.