# Mullvad CLI and Daemon

This repository is an alternative for people who want to avoid building and running the Electron-App and instead want to rely on the systemd-daemon and the cli. Oriented on [mullvad-vpn in the AUR.](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mullvad-vpn/).

## Build
### Download GPG Codesigning Key
[Manual on the mullvad website](https://mullvad.net/en/help/verifying-signatures/)

- `gpg2 --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys EA0A77BF9E115615FC3BD8BC7653B940E494FE87`
- `gpg2 --edit-key EA0A77BF9E115615FC3BD8BC7653B940E494FE87`
- `gpg2 --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys 8339C7D2942EB854E3F27CE5AEE9DECFD582E984`
- `gpg2 --edit-key 8339C7D2942EB854E3F27CE5AEE9DECFD582E984`
for each key do:
- in gpg console enter `trust`
- in gpg console enter `5`
- in gpg console enter `quit`
### build package
- `makepkg --cleanbuild --clean --force`
- `pacman -U mullvad-vpn-....pkg.tar.xz`

## CLI Manual
https://mullvad.net/en/help/how-use-mullvad-cli/

## Settings
You need to put your account number and where you want to connect to into the /etc/mullvad-vpn/settings.json.

## optional Panel Monitor
For Xfce I am using a [Generic Monitor](https://docs.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-genmon-plugin) with a check on a simple script every few seconds. It only checks the daemon-status and returns a string.

`mullvad status 2> /dev/null | head -n 1 | awk '{ print $3 }'`