derkrasseleo/tailscale-status

An unofficial Gnome Extension to manage and check the status of tailscale-cli. This extension is in no way affiliated with Tailscale Inc.

Tailscale status gnome-shell-extension

This extension is in no way affiliated with Tailscale Inc.

Easily view the status of your tailscale mesh network and toggle the status of your own machine. Thus, this requires that you have setup tailscale beforehand.

Features

• Copy address of any node by clicking it in the menu
  • 💻 - your own computer
  • 🟢 - online or idle
  • ❌ - offline
• enable/disable incoming connections
• accept/reject subnet routes
• if exit node: allow direct access to local network
• Accept or send files with taildrop
• Connect through an available exit node

Dependencies

This obviously requires tailscale to work! To send files python3 is required as well.

Installation

Download the [email protected] directory and move it to ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/. Enable the extension in Extensions or Extension Manager. You might have to log in and out for the extension to be loaded.

Contribution info

This has been tested with PopOS 22.04 and gnome 42 on a Lenovo Ideapad laptop. Feel free to open pull requests to improve the extension!

TODOs

• Test and support older gnome-shell versions (< 42)
• improve code readibility