I use Linux for my primary OS and have ProtonVPN unlimited plan. I’d much prefer to connect/disconnect from terminal instead of Graphics UI but cannot find a way to do so.
Has anyone done this before or is this even supported by Proton VPN?
Yes, proton uses Wireguard/Openvpn so you can use any VPN client you like. I use Gluetun on my server to tunnel some of my docker containers traffic
It’s very easy, you just use “protonvpn-cli --help”.
For example “sudo protonvpn-cli c --p2p” will connect to the fastest P2P supported server.
To disconnect you do “sudo protonvpn-cli d”.
You could also download the wireguard (or openvpn configs) from your proton dashboard and use “sudo wg-quick up /path/to/your/config”.
You can also put your wireguard configs in to “/etc/wireguard/” then you won’t have to specify the complete path.
they had a way, protoncli-vpn. worked better then their GUI app
but they removed the instructions from the website … meaning they will not support it anymore
using OpenVPN or Wireguard: it must much less convenient, you cant browse the servers, cant enable Netshield, cant choose -p2p, -f , fetc …