wireguard-monitor

Simple bash script for monitoring current IP and WireGuard status in Xfce tray.

Requirements

• Xfce desktop
• Installed genmon-plugin: https://docs.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-genmon-plugin

sudo apt install xfce4-genmon-plugin

• wget

sudo apt install wget

Features

• Colored tray icon: green - all ok red - wireguard is not working gray - offline or network error
• WireGuard status parsing
• Real IP check and WireGuard endpoind compare
• Periodical run
• Immediatly run by icon click

Install

Go to your favorite directory for scripts:

mkdir ./scripts
cd ./scripts

Clone repository:

git clone https://github.com/VoidVolker/wireguard-monitor

Allow wg show command to run without password:

sudo visudo

Add next line to sudoers file:

username ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/wg show

Where username is your username. This command is used for collecting wireguard status.

Add genmon widget

xfce4-panel --add genmon

Now you need to get widget name. To get this name, go to the panel properties screen and on the Items tab, hover your mouse over the genmon plugin to get it's internal name.

You will get: genmon-X. Where X is plugin number. Example: genmon-10. Use this number as first argument for script. Plugin name is used for plugin refresh via icon click.

Go to genmon plugin properties and add next settings:

• Command: ./scripts/wireguard-monitor/wireguard-monitor -n X, where X is plugin number.
• Period: 60

Command line arguments

Short name	Long name	Default value	Description
-n	--name	-	Widget/plugin name
-i	--icon	32	Icon size. Founded sizes: 24 32 48 64
-f	--face	'JetBrains Mono'	Font family
-e	--error	ff4400	Error color
-p	--ip	9dffa8	Ip color
-n	--endpoint	707eff	Endpoint color
-h	--handshake	a164e0	Handshake color
-t	--transfer	f1e552	Transfer color
-c	--command	poll vpn status	Custom command to run on click