Hi,
I can’t work on Whonix 18 with Wayland because one of my most important app uses java and it crashes a lot on wayland, even with xwayland, it needs x11 only + copy-paste problem.
I made this simple tutorial for anyone that wants to use Whonix 18 with LXQT + X11 (it works with xfce + x11 too, but i found a bug that i cannot solve “An application has requested to open the following directory with default file manager. would you like to open those directories”.
Whonix 18 with LXQT + X11 tutorial for KVM/QEMU (it should work for VirtualBox too, the principle is the same)
| I can keep using whonix gateway 18 GUI |
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| Download whonix 18 CLI version: Whonix for KVM |
| Extract: tar -xvf Whonix*.libvirt.xz |
| Change name to something meaningfull like workstation-cli-x11, set copy-paste to yes: nano Whonix-Workstation-CLI.xml |
| sudo virsh -c qemu:///system define Whonix-Workstation-CLI.xml |
| first time log in with user, after sysmaint-split installation use sysmaint for sudo |
| upgrade-nonroot |
| sudo apt install lxqt-core lxqt-panel lxqt-qtplugin pcmanfm-qt qterminal lightdm |
| sudo systemctl enable --now lightdm |
| sudo apt install user-sysmaint-split sysmaint-panel |
| reboot, select sysmaint mode persistent (still cli) |
| sudo apt install tb-updater tb-starter ; reboot, go to user mode persistent (GUI, finally) |
| update-torbrowser (in user mode not sysmaint) |
| torbrowser |
| For any sudo commands just reboot, go to sysmaint mode, sysmaint as user login: sudo apt install default-jdk (java for running Minecraft, not Cobalt Strike Client, of course :)) |