A modern and fast implementation of tailscale-systray in Rust. Redesigned from ground up for a more maintainable codebase.
Note
Tailray is a work in progress, but it is fully functional as far as usage goes. If things do not work, please do feel free to let me know. Contributions are also welcome, and so are feature requests.
- Status monitoring: Displays connection status through the tray icon
- IP management: Easy access to copy your IP or peer IPs to clipboard
- Privilege handling: Automatically elevates privileges when needed
- Desktop notifications: Receive notifications about connection status
Tailray requires Tailscaled to be up and running. On Linux systems, you can
check its status with systemctl status tailscaled. After you confirm that
Tailscale is running, and that you are authenticated run tailray from a
terminal or consider writing a Systemd service for it.
Alternatively, start it directly with tailray. A Tailscale icon will appear in
your system tray. Click on it to access the menu:
- Connect/Disconnect: Toggle your Tailscale connection
- This device: View and copy your device's Tailscale IP address
- Network Devices: View and copy IP addresses of connected peer devices
- My Devices: Personal devices on your Tailscale network
- Tailscale Services: Service devices on your network
- Admin Console: Open the Tailscale admin web interface
- Exit Tailray: Close the application
Tailray will assume https://login.tailscale.com/admin/machines to be the Admin
Console URL by default. You may override this URL by setting TAILRAY_ADMIN_URL
to an URL of your choice. This is useful if you are using Headscale as your
Tailscale coordination sever.
The recommended way of building Tailray is with the Nix build tool. You may run
nix develop in the repository to enter a devShell with the necessary
dependencies. Direnv users may also use direnv allow to let Direnv handle
their shell environment.
Tailray is based on, and is a aggressively refactored soft-fork of @dieterplex's tailscale-tray-rs project and is licensed under the MIT LICENSE following the upstream license. While much has changed, my thanks go to dieterplex for their initial efforts that laid out an excellent foundation for Tailray.