openvpn3-indicator

Simple indicator application for OpenVPN3.

Description

This is a simple indicator application that controls OpenVPN3 tunnels. It is based on D-Bus interface provided by OpenVPN3 Linux client. It is a temporary solution until Network Manager supports OpenVPN3.

Example use

https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn3-indicator/assets/5970093/b9245e81-7896-4b53-b2c2-e03e00cbc35c

Prerequisites

This application requires the installation of openvpn3-linux (https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn3-linux). This software is packaged on recent Linux distributions usually in the package named openvpn3-client. There are also pre-built packages prepared for popular distributions by OpenVPN.

Installation instructions (from standard repositories)

Package openvpn3-indicator can be installed on some recent Linux distributions using standard repositories.

Ubuntu

Since Ubuntu stonking, openvpn3-indicator is packaged in universe repository and can be installed using

sudo apt install openvpn3-indicator

Debian

Since Debian forky, openvpn3-indicator is packaged in standard repository and can be installed using

sudo apt install openvpn3-indicator

For Debian trixie the package is available in the Fast Forward repository.

Installation instructions (from development repositories)

We provide package repositories with the latest development version of openvpn3-indicator for Ubuntu and Fedora users.

Ubuntu

Packages are hosted in Ubuntu Launchpad repository. Installation instructions:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:grzegorz-gutowski/openvpn3-indicator
sudo apt install openvpn3-indicator

Fedora + RHEL

Packages are hosted in Fedora Copr repository . Installation instructions:

sudo dnf copr enable grzegorz-gutowski/openvpn3-indicator
sudo dnf install openvpn3-indicator

Installation instructions (from sources)

Prerequisites

Application requires some standard python libraries that are usually present in desktop installations. On Ubuntu/Debian systems it should be enough to use the following install command:

sudo apt install python3-gi gir1.2-ayatanaappindicator3-0.1 python3-secretstorage python3-setproctitle

On Fedora:

sudo dnf install python3-secretstorage python3-setproctitle gnome-shell-extension-appindicator

Installation

You can use provided Makefile to install the application in /usr/local for all users.

sudo make install

You can also install symlinks to the current directory in ~/.local/ for the current user only. This is the way for developers, as it allows easy modifications of the application.

make devel

You can uninstall the application by running sudo make uninstall or make undevel.

Usage instructions

Simply click the indicator icon to control OpenVPN3 tunnels: import configurations, connect, pause, resume, and disconnect sessions.