OpenVPN-GUI Replace Windows System Tray Icons

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OpenVPN-GUI Replace Windows System Tray Icons

As of this writing, the OpenVPN-GUI system tray icon is very similar to the Windows 10 wired network icon, making it difficult to distinguish the two at a glance. This gist provides color swapped versions of the default OpenVPN icon to match the three (3) connection states, i.e., disconnected, connecting, and connected.

Using a resource editor, the user can modify their copy of the openvpn-gui.exe binary file to use the new icons. This gist includes a sample Resource Hacker script for this purpose, see "replace-tray-icons.txt".

Usage: ResourceHacker.exe -script replace-tray-icons.txt

The sample script assumes the openvpn-gui.exe file is in the same directory. Modify the Open and Save parameters to change this as needed.

connected.ico

connecting.ico

disconnected.ico

replace-tray-icons.txt

[FILENAMES]
Open = openvpn-gui.exe
Save = openvpn-gui-new.exe
Log  = replace-tray-icons.log

[COMMANDS]
-modify        connected.ico,    IconGroup,91,1033
-modify        connecting.ico,   IconGroup,92,1033
-modify        disconnected.ico, IconGroup,93,1033

sample.png

I see, no worries.

You could theoretically unpack, modify the GUI binary, and then repackage the installer. That said, keep in mind that the PGP signature would no longer validate (if that's a concern for your environment).