VPN Connection Bar Widget: Disconnect from <name> not functioning correctly

[thesagaciouspanda]

Two issues with the VPN Connection bar widget. See below:

a) When connected to mullvad-VPN it displays as wg0-mullvad which is not incorrect but is not displaying the correct information one would need it to use when using this feature.

It's displaying wg0-mullvad because wg is wireguard which mullvad uses yes but this isn't the server that mullvad is connected to as a network exit eg ro-buh-wg-001 (Romania,Bucharest using server 001) which is what im currently connected to currently.
What it should be displaying is ro-buh-wg-001 not wg0-mullvad. Preferably there could be a toggle setting to display both but there isn't any benefit from showing just wg0-mullvad outside of knowing if your connected to a VPN or not but the widget would greatly enhance practicality if it also showed the VPN server its connected to when it is being used.

b) When right-clicking the VPN Connection bar widget when connected, it displays disconnect connection in the context menu. Clicking this says disconnected from wg0-mullvad in my case. Two issues with this:

1. it disconnects me from the internet. Trying to do anything at all like system updates or using browser to go to a website returns no network connection.
2. WiFI bar widget/network shows connected still which is technically correct > see 3)
3. Mullvad VPN GUI/CLI shows it never actually disconnected from the VPN. It's still connected to Mullvad VPN server: ro-buh-wg-001 (Romania,Bucharest).

If you click disconnect from the Mullvad VPN GUI or CLI then network connection is restored. This demonstrates the VPN Connection disconnect is not working correctly currently.

Feature request: Would be great if you could also connect to VPN like you can disconnect in the context menu and it auto connects to the last connected VPN server used or something.

[spiros132]

Are you talking about the "tailscale vpn" plugin or the "network manager vpn" plugin?

[thesagaciouspanda]

The Network Manager VPN plugin. Let me know if you need me to do anything specific to assist

[nZo-sp]

Are you sure, this https://github.com/noctalia-dev/noctalia-plugins/tree/main/network-manager-vpn does not have a context menu with connect/disconnect. In the context menu there Is only a button ti open the settings panel

[spiros132]

@nZo-sp