Hi, I am willing to give GUI domain a try. I have followed the documentation for the hybrid version. As a final step it instructs: “At this point, you need to shutdown all your running qubes as the default_guivm qubes global property has been set to sys-gui.” So, I have rebooted the computer. “I…

[image] qubist: I don’t notice any speed up of visual UI. For example, the scrolling in the text editor of the default “untrusted” VM is still choppy. What should I do to actually use the sys-gui? Sys-gui is not about pass-through graphics acceleration to VMs, it’s for isolation of graphical…

Even so, there is no session option on login interface and the question remains. What should I do?

I have gone through all the threads you linked but there is no answer to my question there. Something more: I tested what one of the threads suggests and created a test-vm, then I set its guivm to sys-gui through qvm-prefs. Then I tried to run apps in test-vm (XTerm, Firefox). Result: nothing shows…

I kindly ask again for help. I hope that’s not considered inappropriate.

I’d try to reinstall the sys-gui and see if there are any errors or warnings in the qubesctl commands output. Or post the logs here.

The section in documentation called “Delete GUI domain” explains how to set default_guivm as dom0. However, this seems unnecessary in my case as it already is dom0. Right? Also, when I installed the sys-gui there were no error messages when running the qubesctl commands, only success was reported, …

[image] qubist: The section in documentation called “Delete GUI domain” explains how to set default_guivm as dom0. However, this seems unnecessary in my case as it already is dom0. Right? That means that something went wrong during installation because default_guivm should’ve beed set to sys-…

Sys-gui installed but no session menu for it on login screen?

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disp6252 April 25, 2023, 12:49pm 5

I didn’t try sys-gui myself so I can’t help you out here. I can just guess that you missed something during sys-gui setup and it didn’t install properly. I can just suggest you to look through these threads and try to figure out what’s missing: