Hello everyone. I have an issue with ProtonVPN working on Fedora 43. For the past year I have used ProtonVPN as my preferred VPN and it has worked without issue until recently. Since the latest update, ProtonVPN refuses to run on my laptop. Even after reinstalling the app multiple times via Proton’s guide on their website, nothing works. When I attempt to run the freshly installed app, literally nothing happens. No error message, no ProtonVPN process appears under the system monitor, nothing. It’s as if I downloaded an Icon to click on without an actual app behind it.
To make matters even more confusing, the app works just fine on my other PC which also runs Fedora 43 KDE edition. It’s only on my laptop where I run into issues. I’m not sure what to do.
The install guide says they officially support Fedora GNOME and not KDE so perhaps there is some other configuration you need to look at on this particular machine?
I use protonVPN on Gnome and can work with it, however sometimes I do have problems to.
I found out that sometimes the “Kill switch” makes that I can not navigate as used.
My workaround on that is, to disable it with the nmcli tool.
In the past I used the CLI tool for protonVPN. This was in special handy, while I used the Mate desktop. This probably would also better work for KDE? I believe the CLI tool is dead ?!
It is still listed in:
dnf list protonvpn*
Available packages
protonvpn-cli.noarch 2.2.12-9.fc43 fedora