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From: explodingbee .
Date: Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 12:22 PM
Subject: Fwd: I recently installed Qubes and I now have several problems
To: dumbcyber , Andrew David Wong ,
Foppe de Haan <0spinbo...@gmail.com>
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From: explodingbee .
Date: Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: I recently installed Qubes and I now have several problems
To: dumbcyber
*Hi dubmcyber,*
*See my comment below.*
On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 6:29 AM, dumbcyber wrote:
> On Tuesday, 13 December 2016 21:29:28 UTC-5, explodingbee . wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I installed qubes several days ago. I now have several problems and I
> would appreciate some help:
> >
> > 1) How can I open WIndows 7 again? First, I intended to install Qubes
> beside Windows 7, which was working fine. Instead I can only boot to Qubes
> now. How can I have a dual-boot setup so that I can also go to Windows 7?
> (Note: my files from Windows 7 were apparently not damaged and I have
> recently managed to get apparently all of them off of the computer and onto
> an external hard drive so they should be safe.) (I did read this file [
> https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/multiboot/] but it seems to say that one
> needs to wipe out everything and reinstall Windows 7 and then reinstall
> Qubes. Can't I fix the GRUB file somehow so that I can use my existing
> installations and programs?)
> >
> > 2) In Qubes the computer often gets slow as molasses. I get error
> messages saying "Warning: unresponsive script" sometimes. When I try to
> open a VM it says that there is not enough memory and that I should close a
> VM first. When the computer gets like this sometimes I click on things and
> nothing happens or it takes forever for something to happen; sometimes I
> can't even close windows because they don't respond. (I am using an HP
> Elitebook 8540w laptop. It has 4 GB of RAM and an i7 CPU.) Also, when I
> shut down the computer sometimes it gets stuck and does not shut down all
> the way. It freezes with the Qubes splash screen there and the progress
> bar indicating partial or complete progress.
> >
> >
> > 3) Problem relating to program installation: When I install programs in
> the Fedora or Debian templates they don't appear in the list of available
> programs in the templates or in the VMs based on those templates so I don't
> see how I can create shortcuts for programs in my VMs.
> >
> >
> > 4) Problem in getting a video player to work: I have installed four
> different video players (Snappy, Budgie, Banshee and Parole) and none of
> them seem to be able to play videos I have downloaded (with Video Download
> Helper and Firefox in an App VM). (I can get the video players to launch
> not with the proper shortcuts but in another, awkward way, by going to
> Domain: personal -> personal: Software and then clicking around until I get
> to the right app which was previously installed and then clicking on
> "launch.") Also, the default player, apparently called "Videos," doesn't
> work. Am I missing something here?
> >
> >
> >
> > This paragraph shows the problems which arise when I try to use each of
> the above mentioned video players. You may (or may not) want to skip this
> paragraph. (I am including these video player error descriptions partly
> because they may give a clue as to an overall problem here.)
> > (a) Snappy: The video player shows that a video has loaded but then
> when I click play it does nothing.
> > (b) Parole: When I try to play a video I get the following error
> message: "Error GStreamer backend error Could not intialize Xv
> output." The only button to click on the error message dialogue box says:
> "Close."
> > (c) Banshee: This video player doesn't play videos when I click
> play. It sometimes causes an error message which reads: "Additional
> multimedia codecs requires. An application is requesting additional
> multimedia codecs." Then there is a button which reads "find in
> software." (Other times when I click play after selecting a video the
> video player just does nothing.)
> > (d) Budgie: This videos player does nothing when I click play after
> a video which has been loaded into the program is selected.
> > (e) Videos: (Apparently this video player is called "Videos." It
> is the default player.) When I select a video and then select "Play with
> Videos" an error message comes up. It says: "H.264 (Constrained Baseline
> Profile) decoder, MPEG-4 AAC decoder are required to play the file, but are
> not installed." Then there is a button which says "Find in software."
> When I click that button I get another error message which says
> "Unfortunately, the H.264 (Constrained Baseline Profile) decoder and MPEG-4
> AAC decoder you were searching for could not be found. Please see this
> website for more information."
> >
> >
> > 5) I can't update Fedora: I have tried to update Fedora 23 to Fedora
> 25. I
