Gnome Extension: tailscale-status

This extension is in no way affiliated with Tailscale Inc.

Easily manage your tailnets from a GUI gnome extension. 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
• Switch accounts
• Set custom headscale server url via the preferences.

Dependencies

This obviously requires tailscale to work!

Installation

Download the tailscale-status@maxgallup.github.com 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.

Contribute

Feel free to open pull requests or raise issues, but please add a detailed description of exactly what is happening. Additionally please adhere to the review guidlines as much as possible.

TODOs

• [ ] Rewrite extension to utilize tailscale api instead of running tailscale commands.
• [ ] Implement #23