vpn-nmcli-polybar

This polybar plugin uses the network manager command line interface (nmcli) to get and display information about your virtual private network (VPN).

The plugin provides the option to enable and disable the VPN network from polybar.

Configuration

Clone the repository and copy the script to your polybar script folder.

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/pferrervich/vpn-nmcli-polybar
cd vpn-nmcli-polybar
# Copy the script to /your/polybar/scripts/folder
cp vpn-nmcli-polybar.sh /your/polybar/scripts/folder

Don't forget to make the script executable.

#Make the polybar script executable
chmod +x /your/polybar/scripts/folder/vpn-nmcli-polybar.sh

You need to setup your VPN connction. If you have one but you don't remember its name, run the following command to list the available VPN connections of your system.
```
nmcli --mode tabular --terse connection show | grep vpn | cut -d ":" -f1
```

Create a file with your password:

# /etc/vpn/pass.txt
vpn.secrets.password:mySuperSecretPassword

Edit the vpn_toggle_connection() function on the vpn-nmcli-polybar.sh script with your password file if needed:

...
else
   [[ "$ACTIVE_CONNECTION" != "$VPN_ENTRY" ]];
        nmcli con up id "$VPN_ENTRY" passwd-file /etc/vpn/pass.txt
...

Then, change the variable name of the vpn-nmcli-polybar.sh script, VPN_ENTRY with your favourite vpn network.

Finally, add the following code to your polybar config.ini file, and don't forget to add the module on the polybar panel.

[module/vpn]
type = custom/script
interval = 5
exec = ~/.config/polybar/scripts/vpn-nmcli-polybar.sh &
click-left = ~/.config/polybar/scripts/vpn-nmcli-polybar.sh --toggle-connection
format-prefix = "嬨 "

Note: format-prefix is Iosevka Nerd Font