Merge 2 menus of sdwdate tray (better UX)

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If user will hover over sdwdate menu he will have 3 steps to go to the menu:

mergesdwdatemenu

mergesdwdatemenu2

whereas we can save these clicks and miss mouse movements by having one menu:

Whonix-gw
Show Tor status
Tor control panel
Show sdwdate status
Open sdwdate’s log
Restart sdwdate
Stop sdwdate
Exit

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These actions are per-VM. Not global.

There will be multiple VMs listed there once started such as anon-whonix.

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Thats not the case, each GW-appVM will have its own icon/systray in the taskbar for sdwdate.

2sdwdate

so its not that the list will contain all vms inside the menu and we choose which vm sdwdate to restart,read logs…etc

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True, each Whonix-Gateway has its own sdwdate-gui systray. But every Whonix-Workstation is getting an entry in sdwdate-gui. When right clicking on sdwdate-gui:

  • sys-whonix
  • anon-whonix
  • disp…

To see this both sys-whonix and anon-whonix need to be running.

Start at least 1 Whonix-Workstation to see it.

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Already there 2 connected to that gw, i dont see anything changed in the tray.

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If you don’t see any Whonix-Workstation being registered in sdwdate-gui, then that’s a usability issue or bug.

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Followed instructions here, doesnt work as the icon you posted.

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You also need this one:

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will lead you to:

which i already posted.

no special stuff with GW as mentioned only change name and based it on gw-template and give network to newly created GW-appvm as per:

The only requirement is that the newly created sys-whonix is based on the whonix-gw-16 Template and has a distinctive VM name, so it is not confused with other VMs.

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added to documentation just now:

You also need the follow he instructions from the Multiple Whonix-Gateway page.

and

You also need to follow the instructions on the Multiple Whonix-Workstation wiki page.

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I think wiki pages

are no longer useful.

Should be merged into:

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Done.

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yes it is a bug in 4.2.

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Multiple Whonix-Workstation ™ + https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Multiple_Whonix-Workstation#If_you_are_using_the_default_sys-whonix_as_gateway works for me:

  • There is only 1 sdwdate-gui systray started by sys-whonix.
  • Multiple VMs (sys-whonix, anon-whonix, anon-whonix-2, disp2482) are all showing up.
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Multiple Whonix-Workstation ™ + https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Multiple_Whonix-Workstation#If_you_are_using_a_gateway_other_than_sys-whonix also works for me.

  • There is only 1 sdwdate-gui systray started by sys-whonix-2.
  • Multiple VMs (sys-whonix, anon-whonix, anon-whonix-2, disp2482) are all showing up.

But I had on issue before I could make it work.

File /usr/local/etc/sdwdate-gui.d/50_user.conf

Had:

gateway=sys-whonix2

But the actual VM name I used was:

gateway=sys-whonix-2

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In summary: No bug could be reproduced.

sdwdate-gui qrexec denied messages? See Qubes-Whonix ™ troubleshooting, sdwdate-gui qrexec.

Documentation enhancements have been made.

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I see, in this case i leave it to other users if they will have the same thing. (unlikely that someone will figure out there is something missing/broken…)

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Please try.

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This is due to missing qvm-tags in dom0. This issue can happen in corer cases. [1]

Documentation was updated just now.

See:

Add qvm-tag anon-gateway to the newly created App Qube.

See:

Add qvm-tag anon-vm to the newly created App Qube.

Please refer to the documentation. It’s now updated on how to add the qvm-tags.

[1]

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