I’m using Surfshark ,is it possible to start Surfshark automatically when I start my PC?
Hello kiekeboe,
I use XFCE and have there in the “Settings” -> “Session and startup behavior” - there is certainly also for Gnome. There in the tab “Automatically started applications” I can create / place their own entries.
Is that what you are looking for?
I use KDE plasma?
Let’s try a web search:
https://swisscows.com/web?query=kde%20autostart%20application
and that leads to:
https://userbase.kde.org/System_Settings/Autostart
Wow, that was quick! 
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or a search from System Settings 
That would imply the user knows that System Settings exists. 
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Let me tell first that I’m a beginner.And I know System Settings My problem is that have to start Surfshark in a terminal…first I must give my password,then I must chose the server and then I’ve to chose between TCP or UDP, so my question is how can I do that?
Oh, wait, this is a paid-for VPN service. That means they have their own customer support:
https://support.surfshark.com/hc/en-us
It’s likely you can set up a VPN profile using Network Manager, for example:
I had contact with customer support of Surfshark,they have only a method for Debian based distro’s.
Reading https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/surfshark-vpn it appears this VPN uses OpenVPN so you can configure it using Network Manager (via the networkmanager-openvpn plugin).
Ask customer support for the relevant OpenVPN settings.
If they don’t support Arch-based distributions then you might want to find a provider that does.
This is what they send me:
1. Create auth.txt file inside /etc/openvpn directory via this command:
sudo gedit /etc/openvpn/auth.txt
Fill it with your SurfShark Service Credentials:
username
password
Save it.
2. Then open the file which you are using to establish a connection:
sudo gedit /etc/openvpn/ca-mon.prod.surfshark.com_udp.ovpn
And change this line:
auth-user-pass
into
auth-user-pass auth.txt
Save the file and change its name:
sudo mv /etc/openvpn/ca-mon.prod.surfshark.com_udp.ovpn /etc/openvpn/ca-mon.conf
3. Then you will have to edit the startup on boot file via this command:
sudo gedit /etc/default/openvpn
When the text editor opens, add this line above #AUTOSTART=“all”:
AUTOSTART=“ca-mon”
Save the file and reboot your Linux device.
4. After the reboot - open the terminal and type in:
sudo traceroute 8.8.8.8
The first hop address should be 10.8.8.1 and in ipleak.net you should see Canada Montreal servers IP address.
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Welcome aboard!
As long as you are using EndeavourOS replacing the word gedit with nano should work here.
I replaced gedit with nano, everything runs fine until point 3, if it opens openvnp, it’s empty, I entered 'AUTOSTART = “ca-mon” ,saved it and then when I execute point 4 (sudo traceroute 8.8.8.8) I get error “sudo: traceroute: command not found”
Install traceroute:
sudo pacman -Syu traceroute
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Error is gone,but no connection with Surfshark ?
Does ip a show a tunnel?
something like :
3: tun0: <POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UNKNOWN group default qlen 500
link/none
inet **.***.***.*/24 scope global tun0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ****::****::****::****::****/64scope link stable-privacy
Is your user member of group openvpn/nm-openvpn?
(Maybe the developer uses a different group entry, due to being proprietary as far as I understand)
[willy@willy-precisionworkstationt3500 ~]$ sudo traceroute 8.8.8.8
[sudo] wachtwoord voor willy:
traceroute to 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 _gateway (192.168.0.1) 8.290 ms 8.260 ms 8.244 ms
2 * * *
3 * * *
4 * * *
5 dD5E0FA6D.access.telenet.be (213.224.250.109) 28.767 ms 33.466 ms 32.289 ms
6 dD5E07D03.access.telenet.be (213.224.125.3) 34.569 ms 30.714 ms 31.810 ms
7 108.170.241.225 (108.170.241.225) 31.793 ms 108.170.241.161 (108.170.241.161) 14.779 ms 108.170.241.193 (108.170.241.193) 20.056 ms
8 108.170.236.139 (108.170.236.139) 18.895 ms 108.170.227.3 (108.170.227.3) 24.307 ms 108.170.236.141 (108.170.236.141) 17.888 ms
9 dns.google (8.8.8.8) 22.448 ms 21.797 ms 20.371 ms
[willy@willy-precisionworkstationt3500 ~]$ sudo surfshark-vpn status
Not connected to Surfshark VPN
that is what I recive after ‘sudo traceroute 8.8.8.8’
How do you use surfshark-vpn with Endavour OS? I couldn’t make it work.
Install surfshark-gui-bin 1.1.0.1 from aur .
I am using Surfshark now for about 3 years.
On Gitlab i have an example how to add surfshark (or other vpn services) manualy to your system.
I got this from a thread from the puppylinux forum a while ago.
Personaly i use this for my puppylinux installation.
Normaly i use network-manager to add .ovpn files to connect with surfshark, and auto connect at boot.
I am using mainly xfce4, openbox and i3wm desktops.
