Wireguard VPN client setup

Overview

This guide will walk you through setting up Wireguard client on Ubuntu along with adding a toggle to your gnome interface. I will assume you already have a wireguard VPN server running elsewhere along with your wireguard client conf file.

Installing and running Wireguard

1. Install wireguard.

   sudo apt install wireguard
   

2. Create a wg0.conf file in /etc/wireguard and paste your wireguard client conf in this file. CTRL + X to save.

   sudo nano /etc/wireguard/wg0.conf
   

At this point wireguard is now installed and configured you can start and stop wireguard with either of the below commands.

#start via service
sudo systemctl start wg-quick@wg0.service
#start via wg tool
sudo wg-quick up wg0

#stop via service
sudo systemctl stop wg-quick@wg0.service
#stop via wg tool
sudo wg-quick down wg0

Enable and disable Wireguard via gnome shell extension

1. Enable wireguard-indicator extension. LINK

2. Go to the wireguard-indicator settings and modify the name of the first service. Make sure the service is set to wg-quick@wg0.service and click Ok.

3. Delete the second service