Zorin 18 PRO VPN can't save/apply changes

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Hi

After Zorin 18 Pro installacion im not able to add any VPN connercion. Apply button is greyed out (not active).

But when i go trhu with terminal, im able to create and connect with Wireguard VPN server.

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I can add VPN connection via nm-connection-editor, its showing in network gui, but doesn't work.

For Zorin 17 Pro has been woriking fine.

Thanks in advance for help.

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I'm not familar with this. I only found posts that it might help to fill out tab advanced before

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I never could get a wireguard connection to work when creating via GUI on Gnome. KDE works just fine.... However, I really only ever create a wireguard connection via nmcli:

nmcli connection import type wireguard file wgX.conf
nmcli connection modify wgX autoconnect no
nmcli connection down wgX

The "autoconnect no" and "connection down" are my preference, as I like to check the config in the GUI before testing. YMMV.

here is a sample wgX.conf file... Edit it to make it fit your config:

[Interface]
PrivateKey = <Private Key for Client>
PresharedKey = <PSK for Client>
Address = 10.10.10.10/32
DNS = 1.1.1.1,8.8.8.8

[Peer]
PublicKey = <Public Key of WG server> 
AllowedIPs = 0.0.0.0/0, ::/0
Endpoint = <ISP public IP>:58120

Change the "wgX" part of the filename to be whatever you want the connection name to be (Before starting.) Or you can change the connection name later with:

nmcli connection modify wgX con-name GooberNetVPN

Once this is done, you connect and disconnect it via the normal gui "systray" button. These instructions work on any distro that uses Network Manager, regardless of DE. I distro hop quite a bit, so these instructions are pretty well tested by myself, and I just did it for Zorin 18 with zero issues.