TailDropGUI

About

I made this simple GUI to help me when using tailscale between Linux and other devices. It's a simple program that lets you drag and drop files to send to devices online on your tailnet.

Installation

You can install the requirements by running pip install -r requirements.txt. It is however recommended to use a virtual environment or a conda environment to avoid conflicts with other packages.

If you want to run it more like a command or program, you can create a bash script like the one below (the example uses conda):

#!/bin/bash

# Run gui.py in the background using the Conda environment
conda run --no-capture-output -n conda_env python ~/yourpathhere/taildropgui.py > ~/yourpathhere/gui_output.log 2>&1 &

# Print the PID of the background process
echo "GUI started with PID: $! \nYou can kill using \"kill < $ >\" or pkill -f taildropgui.py"

And run

chmod +x taildropgui.sh

to make it executable.

Note, because tailscale requires sudo to run, you may have to do the following:

sudo visudo

and add:

yourusername ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/tailscale file cp *
yourusername ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/tailscale file get *

Usage

Once launched, it will open a window and you can select the device to send to from the drop down. You can also select the folder to save the files to. Then, simply select or drop a file to send, or click the receive files button to receive files from taildrop.

Credits:

The icons are from SVG repo