Tuntun is an applet for Gnome panel written in Vala and it can manage a list of vpn connections through the OpenVPN Management Interface. It's a rewrite and a replacement of my ovpnClient and it implements some items that were on ovpnClient todo list.

Main features

• Simple & lightweight just a client GUI to start/stop your OpenVPN tunnels and nothing more
• Integrated with the Gnome Desktop (support for the Keyring and notification daemon)
• Support for Auth and Private-Key OpenVPN authentication methods

Although Tuntun was written in Vala you will need the valac compiler only if you want to contribute to the project or compile it from svn. Since valac compiler just translate vala code to straight C code + GObject, to build every Tuntun release only gcc is required.

Beside that I advise you to try Vala because it's just a more fun and productive way to write programs that integrate well in the Gtk+ and Gnome technologies.

Download

Releases: http://code.google.com/p/tuntun/downloads/list

Source code repository: http://gitorious.org/tuntun/tuntun

Compile & Install

Just do:

./configure --prefix=/usr --libexec=/usr/lib/gnome-applets

./make

./make install

NEWS

Mon Jan 11 2009:

Tuntun version 0.4.0 "back to life" released!

Main changes from 0.3.1 are:

• Dropped GNIO and used GLib for networking (requires GLib >= 2.22)
• Support for .config XDG directory specification
• Fully compatible with valac 0.7.9

Tue Aug 26 2008:

Back from vacation :(

New AMD64 Debian package uploaded for tuntun version 0.3.1 (thanks to Ivars Strazdiņš)

Mon Jul 28 2008:

Tuntun version 0.3.1 released!

This is a bugfix release, main changes from 0.3.0 are:

• Fixed internationalization support
• Added Latvian translation (thanks to Ivars Strazdiņš)

Sat Jul 19 2008:

New Ubuntu 8.04 package uploaded for tuntun version 0.3.0

Wed Jul 16 2008:

Tuntun version 0.3.0 released!

Main changes from 0.2.0 are:

• S.n.u.l. adapted to use GIO/GNIO library
• New summary tooltip with the current connection status
• Automatically reconnect to the openvpn daemon management interface on connection lost
• Fully compatible with valac 0.3.4

Sat Jun 7 2008:

Tuntun version 0.2.0 released!

Main changes from 0.1.0 are:

• Animated panel icon on activity
• Assigned ip shown in the notification
• More consistent status icons in the menu / notification / connections dialog
• A connection may be selected for a quick (shift + click) connect action
• Fully compatible with valac 0.3.3

Fri Mar 14 2008:

Tuntun version 0.1.0 released!