Kernel 4.14.103-1 dmenu is not working

[eduz...@gmail.com]

Hey guys I migrated from arch to qubes. But I am having some difficulties with I3 windows manager I am fairly new to qubes. I like how I can still use my favorite arch distro. and benefit from qubes' secured architecture.

I followed the instructions to install i3 windows manager but the system became incredibly laggy slow after installing it. For example, I am in a browser and scrolling down and the screen will freeze/lag and then stop scrolling. I gotta click anywhere on screen for the screen to keep scrolling down or up .. It will also freeze when I am inside a terminal typing a command and I have to click anywhere inside the terminal for the command to completely print.

And dmenu doesn't work. $mod+d does nothing. Typing "i3-dmenu-desktop" gives an error message "invalid input: "" doesn't match any application. Your command: exec --no startup-id ""
Error: expected one of these tokens: '--no-startup-id',<string>

My machine is lenovo e570, i7 skylake, gtx950, 16G ddr4, nvme

On xfce everything seems to work fine.. Anyone else experiencing the same things with i3

[Sven Semmler]

On 5/2/19 1:16 PM, eduz...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hey guys I migrated from arch to qubes. But I am having some difficulties with I3 windows manager I am fairly new to qubes. I like how I can still use my favorite arch distro. and benefit from qubes' secured architecture.

Great to see you join the community.

>
> I followed the instructions to install i3 windows manager but the system became incredibly laggy slow after installing it. For example, I am in a browser and scrolling down and the screen will freeze/lag and then stop scrolling. I gotta click anywhere on screen for the screen to keep scrolling down or up .. It will also freeze when I am inside a terminal typing a command and I have to click anywhere inside the terminal for the command to completely print.

You mean "sudo qubes-dom0-update i3 i3-settings-qubes" ? That's all one
needs to do.

> And dmenu doesn't work. $mod+d does nothing. Typing "i3-dmenu-desktop" gives an error message "invalid input: "" doesn't match any application. Your command: exec --no startup-id ""
> Error: expected one of these tokens: '--no-startup-id',<string>

That makes me thing you missed the i3-settings-qubes package.

> My machine is lenovo e570, i7 skylake, gtx950, 16G ddr4, nvme
>
> On xfce everything seems to work fine.. Anyone else experiencing the same things with i3

Nope, I am running i3 on Qubes for years. It's pure heaven! ;-)

[eduz...@gmail.com]

Ty Sven. Yes, I installed it with "sudo qubes-dom0-update i3 i3-settings-qubes" . I uninstalled i3 and reinstalled it "dnf remove i3 dmenu i3-settings-qubes" to remove i3. But the problem with dmenu persists. More importantly I still can't figure out why applications/screen hang when I am on I3. Xfce works normal but i am a windows manager all the way. I am working on building rofi to use Intead of dmenu but I am stuck on finding xcb-util-xrm-devel" package

[Sven Semmler]

On 5/2/19 11:13 PM, eduz...@gmail.com wrote:
> But the problem with dmenu persists.

Are you using the default i3 config that came with the -settings package
or have you merged your preferences into it? Have you simply copied an
old i3 config from another system?

I am not an expert, but somewhat surprised by your difficulties. It
should work out of the box. You might be a much more expirienced i3 user
and have by accident overwritten some crucial qubes customization.
That's the only explanation I can think of.

Hope you'll figure it out.

Cheers,
Sven

[eduz...@gmail.com]

Sorry for the late response. I am using the default config so far. What version is your i3? I noticed that my version is 4.12 from 2016. The latest release is i3-4.16

"sudo qubes-dom0-update i3 i3-settings-qubes" will install i3-4.12

I built i3-4.16 and i3-settings-5.1 from official https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-desktop-linux-i3/tree/release4.0?files=1

I transferred both packages to dom0

But in dom0 " sudo dnf install i3-4.16.rpm i3-settings" can't install packages BC of error: "nothing provides libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.27)(64bit) needed by i3-1000:4.16.8.fc28.x86_64"

Using "dnf install glibc-2.27" says "no package glibc-2.27 available" or with "qubes-dom0-update glibc-2.27" says "unable to find a match"

"dnf list glibc" is " installed packages glibc.x86_64-2.22-18.fc23 @anaconda"

I downloaded glibc2.27.rpm, glibc-common-2.27.rpm, glibc-langpack2.27.rpm, libnsl-2.27.rpm to install manually in dom0 but then it says I need more dependencies in order to install..

It seems like qubes-dom0-update is not in sync with latest repo..

[eduz...@gmail.com]

Also I am running Qubes R3.2.
Kernel 4.14.103-1.pvops.qubes.x86_64

[Sven Semmler]

On 5/4/19 12:58 PM, eduz...@gmail.com wrote:
> Sorry for the late response. I am using the default config so far. What version is your i3? I noticed that my version is 4.12 from 2016. The latest release is i3-4.16
>
> "sudo qubes-dom0-update i3 i3-settings-qubes" will install i3-4.12

4.16 (2018-11-04) ... I never build it myself but I have run
qubes-dom0-update with --enablerepo=qubes-dom0-current-testing ... which
might explain the difference to your observation.

> I built i3-4.16 and i3-settings-5.1 from official https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-desktop-linux-i3/tree/release4.0?files=1
>
> I transferred both packages to dom0
>
> But in dom0 " sudo dnf install i3-4.16.rpm i3-settings" can't install packages BC of error: "nothing provides libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.27)(64bit) needed by i3-1000:4.16.8.fc28.x86_64"
>
> Using "dnf install glibc-2.27" says "no package glibc-2.27 available" or with "qubes-dom0-update glibc-2.27" says "unable to find a match"
>
> "dnf list glibc" is " installed packages glibc.x86_64-2.22-18.fc23 @anaconda"
>
>
> I downloaded glibc2.27.rpm, glibc-common-2.27.rpm, glibc-langpack2.27.rpm, libnsl-2.27.rpm to install manually in dom0 but then it says I need more dependencies in order to install..
>
> It seems like qubes-dom0-update is not in sync with latest repo..
>

Maybe remove the self-build stuff, then install i3 and i3-settings-qubes
from qubes-dom0-current-testing?

/Sven

[Sven Semmler]

On 5/4/19 1:03 PM, eduz...@gmail.com wrote:
> Also I am running Qubes R3.2.
> Kernel 4.14.103-1.pvops.qubes.x86_64

Ah, I am running R4 ... but when I used to run R3.2 I also used i3.
Don't know which version though.

R3.2 is no longer supported, so unless the hardware requirements forbid
R4 I'd strongly recommend upgrading.

/Sven

[eduz...@gmail.com]

I will update to R4 and try again but before that I gotta take care of a problem that occurred after I updated arch Linux template. I will open anew post about it. Thanks

[denkxor]

eduz...@gmail.com:

> And dmenu doesn't work. $mod+d does nothing. Typing "i3-dmenu-desktop" gives an error message "invalid input: "" doesn't match any application. Your command: exec --no startup-id ""
> Error: expected one of these tokens: '--no-startup-id',<string>
>
>

> On xfce everything seems to work fine.. Anyone else experiencing the same things with i3

I have the same problem. It might be the same as described here:
https://github.com/i3/i3/issues/3619

This would mean that the bug can be fixed by using a newer version of
dmenu. I havn't tested this myself yet.

Kind Regards,
denkxor