How to Create a GNOME Extension (Part 2) In this video you will learn how to show the terminal output in panel and create a timeout loop. also learn about getting local date and time with different methods. Download the source here: https://gitlab.com/justperfection.channel/how-to-create-a-gnome-shell-extension/ Some additional information: - "ifconfig -a | grep tun0" will return the tunnel info if the VPN is connected. - The part I'm saying that "for better performance use C Library instead" I mean GLib in this example. GLib is a bundle of three low-level system libraries written in C and developed mainly by GNOME.