Re: [qubes-users] VPN up/down pop up not working?

[Stumpy]

On 2021-06-23 04:58, Sven Semmler wrote:

Hi @stumpy,

I don't know what your goals are exactly, but if you'd like a
debian-minimal based qube to connect to a OpenVPN than this will work
for sure:

Template (cloned from debian-minimal):

apt install qubes-repo-contrib
apt update
apt install qubes-tunnel openvpn qubes-core-agent-networking

Qube (based on above template)

Obviously provide netvm and set provides_network to true. Also
'qvm-service sys-vpn qubes-tunnel on'

Then inside the qube

/usr/lib/qubes/qtunnel-setup --config

and finally copy and rename the .ovpn file provided by your VPN
provider to /rw/config/qtunnel/qtunnel.conf

That's all there is. Restart the qube and be happy.

/Sven


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As usual thank you very much Sven!
I will give that a try this weekend.
As for my goals they are pretty simple for proxyvms at least, I wanted 
to minimal templates that have a reduced attack surface, that I did not 
have to update all the time (though of my goals this was the least 
important so long as it was stable), and also a template i did not have 
to change so often. As setting up vpn vms has never been smooth for me, 
i am keen on using a distro like say centos or debian that i dont have 
to worry about EOL too often.


Cheers

btw, anyone know if there are any plans to replace the centos template 
with something like rocky linux? (or something that has a similarly long 
life cycle?)


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Re: [qubes-users] How to assign keyboard shortcuts to a VM?

[unman]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 07:15:22PM -0500, Sven Semmler wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> I don't have the time currently to figure this out and send you a working
> solution. So instead I'll share things I know:
> 
> 1) if you inquire the window property "_QUBES_VMNAME" of the active window,
> you'll get the name of the qube
> 
> 2) you should be able to get to this with wmctrl or maybe xdotool
> 
> Then write a little bash script in dom0 and hook it up to a shortcut, is
> what I think.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> /Sven

Here's a script that does exactly this.
Edit it to do something with $QUBE.
Associate it with a shortcut.

```
#!/bin/bash
ID=`xdotool getwindowfocus`
QUBE=`xprop _QUBES_VMNAME -id $ID|cut -f2 -d\" `
if [[ "$QUBE" == "_QUBES_VMNAME:  not found." ]]; then
  exit
else
# Do something with $QUBE
fi
```

The if clause is to exclude dom0 windows, but you could adapt that if
you *do* want action in dom0.

unman

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