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by parshimers 2264 days ago
If you're using NetworkManager and wireguard, try out the integration between the two as well. It lets you treat the tunnel as any other VPN in nm, and also easily avoids some issues with routing loops if you roam back on to your home network. Before, I always had to manually use wg-quick when I came back home or left.

http://blogs.gnome.org/thaller/2019/03/15/wireguard-in-netwo...
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mqus 2263 days ago
In my experience, this does work somewhat, but doesn't set up the routes properly[1] and doesn't provide an interface to the networkmanager applet, so you are still left with configuring the profiles in the terminal. There is much left to be desired. Sadly the third-party plugin isn't much better and seems to be discontinued[2].

[1] https://forum.manjaro.org/t/wireguard-with-networkmanager-1-... [2] https://github.com/max-moser/network-manager-wireguard/

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parshimers 2263 days ago
Interesting. I haven't had that happen because I do split-tunnel, but I will have to keep that in mind in scenarios when I try to forward everything thru the tunnel. All I needed to do for split tunnel was just adjust the route metric. (https://tujun.ga/2020/02/18/wireguard/) Agreed about the lack of GUI though, I do wish there was a GTK applet for it.
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franga2000 2263 days ago
I seem to recall configuring it entirely (sans key generation) in KDE Plasma network settings. I'm guessing you're referring to another applet?
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mqus 2263 days ago
I'm not an expert in KDE but I mean this applet: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/network-manager-applet.git

I assume that I can't really install the KDE applet without installing the entire KDE suite, so this was my goto solution.

Edit: I see that wireguard support is in the works but is not merged yet: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/network-manager-applet/-/merg...

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