wg-tray

wg-tray enables to quickly bring up/down wireguard interfaces from the system tray, using wg and wg-quick.

Installation

wg-tray is a small python package. To install it globally, the recommended version is using pipx (using just pip will result in the error "externally-managed-environment").

$ pipx install wg-tray

Usage

usage: wg-tray [-h] [-v] [-c CONFIG] [-g CONFIG_GROUPS]

A simple UI tool to handle WireGuard interfaces

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --version         show program version info and exit
  -c CONFIG, --config CONFIG
                        path to the config file listing all WireGuard interfaces (if none is
                        provided, use root privileges to look up in /etc/wireguard/) (default:
                        None)
  -g CONFIG_GROUPS, --config-groups CONFIG_GROUPS
                        Path to the config (.ini file) to have groups of wireguard configs.
                        (default: ~/.wireguard/wg_tray_groups.ini)

The config file should simply list all wireguard interfaces, separated either by newlines or spaces (e.g. wg0 wg1 or

wg0 
wg1

). The purpose of this config file is to avoid using root access on ls to read in /etc; however, its correctness is not checked and it is your responsability to keep it up to date. If no config is provided, the interfaces are dynamically looked up in /etc/wireguard.

If you want to avoid being prompted for your root password each time you run wg-tray, use a config file and add the following lines to your sudoers file (sudo visudo to edit), replacing <username> with your user name:

<username> ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/wg
<username> ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/wg-quick

Config groups

You can group configs by defining them in the config groups file (located at ./wireguard/wg_tray_groups.ini by default).

Example

Here's an example of a wg_tray_groups.ini config file:

[settings]
pick_one_at_random = false

[Group 01]
pick_one_at_random = true
interfaces = inter01
             inter02
             inter03
             inter04

[Group 02]
interfaces = inter05
             inter06

Configs groups settings: pick_one_at_random

By default all interfaces in a group will be brought up with a shortcut button. If you wish to only bring up one random interface from the group, you can define the setting pick_one_at_random in your group section. You can also use it on all groups by defining a settings section.