https://faq.i3wm.org/questions/Frequently asked questions and answers about the i3 window managerenCopyright i3, 2012Tue, 14 Jul 2015 10:06:04 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/1090/how-to-test-networkmanageropenvpn-status-with-i3statusconf/With the original script, the VPN test is made on the pidfile of vpnc In my case, I'm using NetworkManager to connect my computer to my OpenVPN server and I don't have any pid file when the VPN connection is active Is there a way to test if the VPN connection, managed by NetworkManager is active ? I though to test the "not empty" result of the command : ip addr | grep tun ... but I don't know how to test it inside the i3status.conf file...Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:44:22 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/1090/how-to-test-networkmanageropenvpn-status-with-i3statusconf/https://faq.i3wm.org/question/1090/how-to-test-networkmanageropenvpn-status-with-i3statusconf/?answer=6289#post-id-6289---------- Yes this was tricky. I finally figured out that I can use /sys/class/net/tun0/dev_id for this. Tue, 14 Jul 2015 10:06:04 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/1090/how-to-test-networkmanageropenvpn-status-with-i3statusconf/?answer=6289#post-id-6289https://faq.i3wm.org/question/1090/how-to-test-networkmanageropenvpn-status-with-i3statusconf/?answer=5498#post-id-5498One could use the following settings (example from the `i3status` manpage) to determine the VPN status: order += "path_exists VPN" path_exists VPN { # path exists when a VPN tunnel launched by nmcli/nm-applet is active path = "/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/tun0" } Wed, 18 Feb 2015 09:26:35 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/1090/how-to-test-networkmanageropenvpn-status-with-i3statusconf/?answer=5498#post-id-5498https://faq.i3wm.org/question/1090/how-to-test-networkmanageropenvpn-status-with-i3statusconf/?answer=1093#post-id-1093Nope, you need to wrap i3status with an external script in order to achieve that. See http://i3wm.org/i3status/manpage.html#_external_scripts_programs_with_i3statusFri, 18 Jan 2013 19:07:50 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/1090/how-to-test-networkmanageropenvpn-status-with-i3statusconf/?answer=1093#post-id-1093https://faq.i3wm.org/question/1090/how-to-test-networkmanageropenvpn-status-with-i3statusconf/?answer=5823#post-id-5823hi, try use /sys/class/net/tap0 as pidfileSat, 18 Apr 2015 13:54:25 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/1090/how-to-test-networkmanageropenvpn-status-with-i3statusconf/?answer=5823#post-id-5823