Tuxscale

A native Linux GUI for the Tailscale VPN client, built entirely in Rust using iced.

Tuxscale does not bundle or replace Tailscale — it wraps the tailscale CLI already installed on your system, providing a clean desktop interface with a system tray icon.

Features

• Dashboard — connection status, your Tailscale IP, one-click connect/disconnect
• Peers — live list of all tailnet nodes with online/offline status, ping, and copy IP
• Exit Nodes — browse and activate exit nodes on your tailnet
• Netcheck — run a network diagnostics report with DERP region latencies
• Options — toggle key Tailscale settings (Accept DNS, Accept Routes, Shields Up, SSH server, Exit Node LAN access, Advertise as Exit Node)
• System tray — minimize to tray, show/hide window, quit from tray menu
• Auto-refresh — status polls every 5 seconds automatically

Screenshot

(coming soon)

Requirements

• Linux (X11 or Wayland)
• Tailscale installed at /usr/bin/tailscale
• System libraries: libayatana-appindicator3, libgtk-3

Install system dependencies (Debian/Ubuntu)

sudo apt install libayatana-appindicator3-1 libgtk-3-0 libgtk-3-dev libayatana-appindicator3-dev

Installation

From crates.io

cargo install tuxscale

From source

git clone https://github.com/dfrederick15/tuxscale
cd tuxscale
cargo build --release
./target/release/tuxscale

How it works

Tuxscale contains zero Tailscale source code. It communicates entirely by spawning the tailscale CLI binary as a subprocess and parsing its output:

License

MIT — see LICENSE