pivaldi/awesomewm-mullvad

Awesomewm widget to monitor the current Mullvad VPN connection status and provides a simple menu to (re)connect and disconnect the VPN.

Awesomewm Widget for Mullvad VPN

Awesomewm-Mullvad VPN Widget is an Awesomewm widget to monitor the current Mullvad VPN connection status and provides a simple menu to (re)connect and disconnect the VPN.

The widget in action :

1. Real-time status connection with a tooltip on mouse hover (connection up)
2. Real-time status connection with connection down
3. Menu to Connect/Disconnect accessible clicking in the widget

   

Customization

It is possible to customize the widget by providing a table with all or some of the following config parameters :

Name	Default	Description
connect_options	"--wait"
timeout	10	The refresh timeout
format_ok	'<span color="#22FF22">⚛</span>'	The markup format to use when connection is up
format_ko	'<span color="#FF2222">☠</span>'	The markup format to use when connection is down
font	beautiful.font	The font to use in the widget bar/tooltip
cli_path	"/usr/bin/mullvad"	mullvad command path.

Usage

local mullvad_widget = require("awesomewm-mullvad.widget")

…

    -- Add widgets to the wibox
    s.mywibox:setup {
      layout = wibox.layout.align.horizontal,
      { -- Left widgets
…
      },
      s.mytasklist, -- Middle widget
      { -- Right widgets
        layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal,
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          mullvad_widget({}),
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