mullvad

• arch wiki - mullvad
• installing GUI also comes with CLI, nice to have around
• choice of which to install after running below command

paru -S mullvad-vpn

• enable service

systemctl enable mullvad-daemon.service
systemctl start  mullvad-daemon.service

• set auto-connect

mullvad auto-connect set on

• running mullvad-vpn opens GUI while mullvad is CLI
• opening GUI creates lock icon in bar, but can't seem to close window
  • use i3, mod+alt+q
• quitting app kills vpn connection
• might be easiest to just use CLI:
  • mullvad CLI
  • mullvad CLI wireguard
• set account number

mullvad account set 1234123412341234

• set protocol to WireGuard

mullvad relay set tunnel-protocol wireguard

• list servers

mullvad relay list

• set server (format 2 character country code, 3 character city code, server-name), from mullvad relay list

mullvad relay set location us atl us-atl-001

• can give any prefix, e.g. just set location us
• connect

mullvad connect

• disconnect

mullvad disconnect

• check status

mullvad status

• external check: am I mullvad?
• launch <program> and exclude it from vpn

mullvad-exclude <program>

• or, for currently running process with <pid>

mullvad split-tunnel pid add <pid>