Setting up Yakukake / Redirecting keyboard shortcuts

[yon...@gmail.com]

I was trying to setup Yakuake to work with my recently installed system (R3.1)

I first tried to run Yakuake from Dom0 hopping to some how attach a terminal into one of the other VMs.
But since there is no net connection ssh is not an option.
I tried using `qvm-run` but couldn't see any option to get console like connection into the running terminal
(It only opens `gnome-terminal` in a new window).
I managed to get a proper xen console using `xl console` but that gives me a login shell which not only be a bit annoying to login
but also won't allow me to open two simultaneous consoles to the same vm.

Next I tried running Yakuake from inside the VM this worked surprisingly well, getting the floating teminal panel and everything
Tranperancy didn't seem to work but thats not a major issue at the moment.
The main issue wa that the keyboard shortcuts didn't work outside Yakuake window (even from other windows of the same vm) so when
I used the shortcut to hide the window it was gone and there was no way to get it back into view.

I'm not sure which solution I prefer (they both have potrntial pros and cons) But I couldn't find any leads to how to get any of them to work
Intuitively I think that it would be easier to get the global shortcut to work inside the vm
I searched a bit online and couldn't find if there's a way to set global shortcut in dom0 that will passthroe or trigger a shortcut inside one of the VMs
I also couldn't find if there is a way to get ssh like session into a vm from dom0 shell

[Andrew David Wong]

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On 2016-06-13 07:48, yon...@gmail.com wrote:
> I tried using `qvm-run` but couldn't see any option to get console
> like connection into the running terminal (It only opens
> `gnome-terminal` in a new window).

Try using the --pass-io option. It passes stdin/stdout/stderr from the
remote program running in the VM.

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Andrew David Wong (Axon)
Community Manager, Qubes OS
https://www.qubes-os.org
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On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Andrew David Wong <a...@qubes-os.org> wrote:
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> On 2016-06-13 07:48, yon...@gmail.com wrote:
> > I tried using `qvm-run` but couldn't see any option to get console
> > like connection into the running terminal (It only opens
> > `gnome-terminal` in a new window).
>
> Try using the --pass-io option. It passes stdin/stdout/stderr from the
> remote program running in the VM.
>

Thanks Andrew.
I tried that but it doesn't seem to be working properly.
I don't get any of the shell prefix to be displayed, and not all
keyboard keys are passed properly (arrows, ctrl-c)

I managed to solve my issue with using keyboard shortcut by assigning
F12 Key to send the following command -
qvm-run -a <VM> 'dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=org.kde.yakuake
/yakuake/window org.kde.yakuake.toggleWindowState'

So now I can get Yakuake to run in one of the vms but hide and show it
with no issues.
I only need to see if I can get background transparency to work but
that's not a major issue.

[Iestyn Best]

Sounds like some interesting work.

Would be interested in hope you go with this, please keep us updated.

Regards,

Iestyn Best

[Yoni Jah]

We'll I tried to look into the transparency issue but I'm not sure I understand why it's not working.
I thought it might be some gnome setting I can enable but I think it might be due to the fact that the VM don't
have any GPU access.
So I think I'll leave it as is for now (Seeing text behind the terminal can be useful but not too critical).

[rashc...@gmail.com]

I think VM can not make transparency, because it doesn't know what image is behind it's window. So only dom0 knows that, so only dom0 can do transparency.

[rashc...@gmail.com]

For second approach try this: set a global shortcut in dom0, with command to launch yakuake:
qvm-run vmname yakuake
I tested this on debian based VM on R3.0 and it just works.