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saumya-banthia / tailscale-control

A Decky plugin to control Tailscale, while staying in Gaming mode.
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Tailscale control does not work while the tailscaled.service is diabled #19

Closed Vergil365 closed 1 month ago

Vergil365 commented 2 months ago

If i disable the tailscaled.service and try to start tailscale with the tailscale control plugin, the toggle immediately turns back off. I dont want to start it on every boot, just when i need it. But right now it does not work for me. I installed it via the recommended script from tailscale-dev and everything works fine, but the decky plugin is not able to start the service. Every software is on the newest stable version (tailscale, decky loader, tailscale control, steamos).

saumya-banthia commented 2 months ago

At the moment I am AFK, will check this once I am back. Expect a bit of delay. Meanwhile if you are able to push a fix, please do.

saumya-banthia commented 1 month ago

@Vergil365 can you check and get back with the output of tailscale status when run in a terminal, in Desktop mode. Be sure to remove any info that is personally identifiable.

EDIT: This plugin (as stated in the README) does not stop or start tailscaled.service - which would definitely require root privileges - which this plugin does not aim to do unless it becomes necessary. Even though tailscaled.service might be running it does not mean that tailscale is connected to the network, it's only when tailscale up is run that the service starts up the tunnel.

EDIT 2: Just out of curiosity did a ps aux on tailscaled and it seems to use less than 0.5% of CPU and Memory resources (while down) - I know for some it can be an unneccessary 0.5%, but it does not seem enough for me to add root privileges to the plugin.

If I missed something, respond within a week on this thread - post which it will be closed.

Vergil365 commented 1 month ago

sorry i thought tailscale control can stop/start the service. now that i turned the service on and tailscale control is disabled on boot, it is not connected, so everything works perfectly for me. thank you for your anwser.

saumya-banthia commented 1 month ago

No worries. Closing.