How can I make Protonvpn 4.1 login/settings persistent?

[User7]

Hello, first of all thank you for the quality of Qubes OS.

I have a question: How can I make Protonvpn 4.1 desktop login/settings persistent ?

I’d like to do it with bind-dirs and what file name should I put in bind+= ( ? ) ?

Thank you very much

[renehoj]

I don’t know how to make it persistent, I had the same issue.

You can uninstall the protonvpn package, and install the protonvpn-cli and protonvpn-gui packages, then you get the old version back.

That was what I ended up doing after getting annoyed with the new client.

[Tezeria]

To set up with OpenVPN, you just have to follow the tutorial it work perfectly:

Qubes-Community/Contents/blob/master/docs/configuration/vpn.md#set-up-a-proxyvm-as-a-vpn-gateway-using-iptables-and-cli-scripts

For a configuration with wireguard, @solene made a perfect tutorial

Wireguard VPN setup

Good news, with fedora-38 the network manager supports Wireguard out of the box! The only thing required are extra firewall rules in the VPN qube, as explained in the community documentation about VPN. What you’ll need This guide assumes you are using a VPN service that has wireguard support. For example, ProtonVPN and Mullvad VPN do support it. But you can also follow this guide to add any other (even your own). Create a new qube providing network Make sure fedora-38 t…

I’ve set up my sys-vpn with these two methods and everything works perfectly

[qubesuser1234]

Hello, this is very easy follow these steps How to make any file persistent (bind-dirs) | Qubes OS

Replace /var/lib/tor by the folder of your vpn settings. You have to find yourself where is the folder settings of protonvpn in linux inside of the appvm sorry i don’t know where he is… maybe it’s inside /home/user/.config (??)

If you are using a minimal template install thunar or nautilus inside the template where you want to use your vpn for find the folder and click on “Show hidden files” like i said i think proton vpn keep settings inside the hidden folder in home.

For a example i’m using ivpn GUI so i replace binds+=( '/var/lib/tor ) by binds+=( ‘/home/user/.config/IVPN’ ) and binds+=( ‘etc/opt/ivpn’ )

(I don’t know if the second folder of IVPN was necessary for me i just put this folder inside the conf file because it was a ivpn folder)

Reboot your appvm and then connect setup your settings and voila ! everything should be persistent now.

[DVM]

@qubesuser1234

binds+=( ‘/home/user/.config/IVPN’ )

/home is already part of /rw, you don’t need it here.

[qubesuser1234]

Oh thanks you ! I didn’t know so that mean i have to change my conf file “/home/user/.config/IVPN” by “/.config/IVPN” ??

[DVM]

Everything in /home is set in /rw (which is the AppVM private volume) so you don’t need any bind-dir there.
For example, create a file in /home/user (touch test) then check in /rw/home/user/, you’ll see that the file is there.

Also visible in /etc/fstab:

/dev/xvdb		/rw			auto	noauto,defaults,discard,nosuid,nodev	1 2
/rw/home        /home       none    noauto,bind,defaults,nosuid,nodev 0 0
/rw/usrlocal        /usr/local       none    noauto,bind,defaults 0 0

[qubesuser1234]

This is strange because my ivpn-gui settings is persistent only if i have a bind-dir

But you’re maybe right when i use mullvad-gui i don’t need to use a bind dir everything stay without to use bind dir it’s only with ivpn…