thomasb22 / wireguard-indicator

An Indicator for WireGuard

Welcome to WireGuard Indicator 👋

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WireGuard Indicator is an indicator to show the status of your WireGuard VPN.

WireGuard Indicator can enable and disable the WireGuard VPN by clicking on it.

You need becomes root

Prerequisites

You need WireGuard. To install it, simply,

sudo apt install wireguard

Of course, you need to configure your loved WireGuard.

Installing WireGuard Indicator

To install WireGuard Indicator, follow these steps:

Goto GNOME Extensions page and search for WireGuard Indicator.

Enable the extension by click the switch.

Setting Up

WireGuard Indicator provide two ways to connect to your wireguard vpn:

• nmcli With nmcli we need to add our wg.conf file connection first by sudo nmcli connection import type wireguard file /path/to/your/your-wg-file.conf, since WireGuard Indicator pick up the connection of type=wireguard they'll show up on the drop down and toggled right away after import (note: you may want to disable the auto connect via nm-connection-editor or your distro network setting).

• systemd Add wireguard to systemd by running sudo systemctl enable [e-mail], make sure you have your /etc/wireguard/config.conf in place.

Using WireGuard Indicator

When you start WireGuard Indicator it goes to Indicator Area, as you can see in the next screenshot,

In this screenshot, the language is Spanish, but, if there is no translation for your language, you will find the app in English.

If you click to enable WireGuard, a dialog appears to ask you for your password to gain root rights.

You can set some options as you can see in next screenshot

• Enable the dark theme for the WireGuard Indicator icon

• Set the systemd service name
• Set the check time

Contributing to WireGuard Indicator

To contribute to WireGuard Indicator, follow these steps:

1. Fork this repository.
2. Create a branch: git checkout -b <branch_name>.
3. Make your changes and commit them: git commit -m '<commit_message>'
4. Push to the original branch: git push origin atareao/readmemaker
5. Create the pull request.

Alternatively see the GitHub documentation on creating a pull request. </commit_message></branch_name>

👤 Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Lorenzo Carbonell	dtalens
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