jbodhorn
When I connect to a vpn using network manager I get an icon that lets me easily know whether I'm disconnected, connecting, or connected. It's great, aside from that I'm no longer using network manager. To get vpn on boot I had to set it up at the command line adding openvpn to systemd. Since I did it that way the only way of knowing the status of the vpn is to go to the command line, which I'd like to avoid if possible