Fish plugin for controlling ExpressVPN via fzf. This is really just
a simple wrapper around the command-line utility expressvpn. Instead of typing
expressvpn list all, expressvpn connect <server>, and expressvpn disconnect,
you can now use a single command vpn, which exposes these functions via fzf:
In addition to the special items auto and none, all ExpressVPN servers
can be searched, selected, and then connected to from the fzf interface.
Just install expressvpn and fzf, and then add this plugin via fisher:
fisher add jabirali/fish-expressvpn
Then type vpn when you wish to connect/disconnect from the VPN service.
While the main advantage of this function is that it makes VPN selection
more interactive, you can also use it non-interactively. In other words,
instead of typing vpn and selecting an option, you can type vpn none,
vpn auto, or vpn sweden, and these would run expressvpn disconnect,
expressvpn connect, and expressvpn connect sweden, respectively.
On Ubuntu 20.04, you may run into issues with internet connectivity of
Snap applications when activating ExpressVPN. This is because ExpressVPN
replaces /etc/resolv.conf with a symlink, and the AppArmor confinement
of Snap applications block them from reading the target of this link.
If you want this plugin to automatically change that symlink to a
hard copy, after connecting, which fixes the above issue, set
$expressvpn_relink to a non-empty value in your config.fish:
set expressvpn_relink on
This requires your sudo password when connecting. If you get tired
of that, you can use sudo visudo to edit your /etc/sudoers file,
and add the following line to disable password prompts for the
command that fixes your resolv.conf:
# ExpressVPN
ALL ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /bin/cp --remove-destination /var/lib/expressvpn/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf