A patch to make vpn-indicator-shell-extension work for SNX

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A patch to make vpn-indicator-shell-extension work for SNX

This is a patch to the VPN Indicator Gnome Shell Extension to make it work for the SNX VPN.

Links for the VPN Indicator Gnome Shell Extension:

• VPN Indicator
  https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1134/vpn-indicator/

• github.com/howdoicomputer/vpn-indicator-shell-extension
  https://github.com/howdoicomputer/vpn-indicator-shell-extension

This patch makes it work with the SNX VPN.

Instructions

1. Download the patch to ~/Downloads/vpn-indicator-shell-extension.patch

2. Clone the repo to a temporary directory

cd "$(mktemp -d)"
git clone https://github.com/howdoicomputer/vpn-indicator-shell-extension.git ./

3. Apply the patch

patch < ~/Downloads/vpn-indicator-shell-extension.patch

4. Install the modified extension

./install.sh

Notes

There's a fork that uses icons instead of text:

• github.com/mespe/vpn-indicator-shell-extension
  https://github.com/mespe/vpn-indicator-shell-extension

A more sophisticated approach could probably be modelled after the NordVPN Local extension:

• NordVPN Local
  https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1656/nordvpn-local/

• github.com/ThatRobVK/NordVPN-Local
  https://github.com/ThatRobVK/NordVPN-Local

vpn-indicator-shell-extension.patch

index 2dfed8b..d688227 100644
--- a/extension.js
+++ b/extension.js
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ const VpnIndicator = new Lang.Class({
     },
 
     _checkVPN: function() {
-        let [res, out, err, exit] = GLib.spawn_sync(null, ["/bin/bash", "-c", "ifconfig -a | grep tun0"], null, GLib.SpawnFlags.SEARCH_PATH, null);
+        let [res, out, err, exit] = GLib.spawn_sync(null, ["ip", "link", "show", "tunsnx"], null, GLib.SpawnFlags.SEARCH_PATH, null); 
 
         return exit;
     },