Qubes 3.2 fedora-26 large icons and large fonts on Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro high resolution laptop

After updating my qubes installation, my fedora-26 acts up, with huge icons, possibly due to the extreme resolution of my Lenovo Yoga Pro 2.

To fix this install gnome-tweak-tool, and resize fonts and windows to something else and return back again. That will fix it.

First installation with huge fonts:

Resize fonts:

Resize windows:

Select quit and you’re done.

Looking beautiful again:

Fedora-27 didn’t have this problem, but is slow as hell compared to fedora-26, so guessing tweaking is required.

Update entire qubes installation with a script

Thank to Chris Laprise I have now a great update script for my Qubes installation.

I know it’s bad habit to pollute dom0, but I looked distrustfully 😉 through the code and it seems efficient and not in any way harmful.

First we get with git 😉

If you are like me, you don’t want your template to have git, but only install it every time you need it ;), do the following and fedora-26 is polite and helps you out:

In appVM/dispVM, etc.

  • git clone https://github.com/tasket/Qubes-scripts.git

For now we only need the 1 script:

In dom0:

  • qvm-run --pass-io <src-vm> 'cat /path/to/file_in_src_domain' > /path/to/file_name_in_dom0

Now we have it in dom0:

We can try it out on a fedora-26 template:

in  dom0:

  • ./qubes4-multi-update -l fedora-26

Boom, already updated, but you get the picture.

The following command updates only templates with available updates. That should suffice for generic usage.

  • ./qubes-multi-update -a -l -t

I found a small error when running an update on whonix-ws, but otherwise it runs beautifully.

UPDATE 2018-05-04:

When using Qubes 3.2 running the above command includes the standalone VM’s. Just so you know.

UPDATE 2018-12-28:

Chris has updated the script (ref: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/qubes-users/YKAp0_1MFfk/mTyQTM9JEgAJ)

Now I use with unattended and everything just rolls through, nicely:

  • ./qubes-multi-update -a -l -t -u