ProtonVPN App 4.2 setup guide

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Sorry for the quick reply I was a bit busy. So just to clarify, I had meant to set this up for a while but never got round to it, but after seeing your post i decided to set it up. I use debian so i wanted to use debian minimal template. I did everything you listed but got the same response that you did about the vpn not connecting. I think the issue was that the user, user was not a member of the netdev (if i remember correctly) group. I guess i could have just rectified that but i am lazy so just installing qubes-core-agent-passwordless-root was an easy fix. All working on debian-13-minimal using qubes 4.3

Hope that helps

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Anyone else having issues with changing bash_profile for remembering the keyring so it doesn’t block opening Proton VPN automatically on start-up? I did get the checkbox to remember, but since applying and rebooting, they Proton VPN tray icon has disappeared (I didn’t follow the step in the Proton guide to install the tray icon because it worked by default in Qubes).

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I’ve removed password at all

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Anyone else unable to update the ProtonVPN standalonevm qube?

Attempting to run the Qubes Updater from Dom0, the update fails:

Error (exception [Errno 13] Permission Denied: '/var/log/qubes/update-vpn-proton-us.log')

Unable to make any progress by switching update proxy

Update: this issue is unrelated to Proton and seems to be resolved in v4.3

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I was using this guide for 4.2.4 and 4.3 (with an updated way from @estoner to autostart the app).
Now, however after an update of Debian 13 from a week ago the ProtonVPN icon disappeared. Reinstalling everything from scratch didn’t do help to bring the icon back. It appears to be connected after couple minutes, however icon is not there and I really would like to have it.
Anyone have a solution for it?

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Install appindicator package - without it there is no proton VPN icon in tray.

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It seems that after some update, the sys tray icon for Proton VPN doesn’t show up at all, even with appIndicator.

Does anyone know a workaround?

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I’ve been affected by this issue as well, there was another post that discussed this issue, but no workaround or known cause:

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Yes, appindicator was/is installed per ProtonVPN installation guide. Still no icon.

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I have no debian and no 4.3 and I’m not in home for next 2 weeks so can’t check anything.
In fedora 4.2 minimal under r4.2.4 that was what’s missed (it was 3 weeks ago).
Maybe protonvpn package changed or debian needs different package.

Check logs from app start.

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I used “dnf downgrade proton-vpn-gtk-app” until I got back to noarch 4.13.0-1.fc43, and the systray is working again. Which demonstrates the issue is with ProtonVPN 4.14 not with Qubes 4.3, Fedora 43, or Debian 13.

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Current Work Around:

dnf downgrade proton-vpn-gtk-app until you get back to 4.13.
prevent it from updating by doing sudo nano /etc/dnf/dnf.conf

adding line after Qubes End
excludepkgs=proton-vpn-gtk-app

It’s not pretty but it will give you the icon back and ensure it won’t update or keep the qubes update from bothering you. Once a workaround is completed, this will need to be undone.

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