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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Tailscale Omarchy Widget

Native Omarchy bar widget for Tailscale.

Features

  • Shows Tailscale connection state in the bar
  • Left click opens a keyboard-friendly panel
  • Right click toggles Tailscale on/off
  • Switch between available Tailscale connections when multiple are available
  • Browse machines from tailscale status --json
  • Copy a machine's Tailscale IP, host name, or DNS name
  • Send files to a machine with Taildrop, when the tailnet allows file sharing

Keyboard shortcuts

Inside the panel:

  • j / k or arrows: move cursor
  • enter / space: activate current row
  • c: copy selected peer IP
  • n: copy selected peer name
  • d: copy selected peer DNS name
  • s: send files to selected peer
  • t: toggle Tailscale
  • r: refresh status
  • esc: close

Requirements

  • tailscale CLI on PATH
  • wl-copy for clipboard copy actions
  • Taildrop enabled for the tailnet, to send files

Receiving files

Incoming Taildrop files are saved to ~/Downloads by the omarchy-tailscale-receive service, which announces each one with a notification (an image preview when the file is an image, and a click to open it). The Tailscale service install enables it; omarchy tailscale receive runs the same loop by hand.

Icon

Renders the Tailscale mark natively as a theme-colored 3×3 dot grid, matching the official SVG silhouette while avoiding tiny-SVG rendering quirks in the bar.

Add to the bar

This widget ships as first-party plugin omarchy.tailscale. Add it with omarchy plugin enable omarchy.tailscale, then place it with omarchy bar move omarchy.tailscale if desired.