The tray menu
Left-clicking the tray icon shows or hides the window and right-clicking it opens this menu, so for a lot of daily use this menu is the dashboard. It carries its own copy of the controls that matter, it reports the machine’s state in six readings at the top, and it can connect a tunnel, route the system through Tor, change your hardware address, wipe browser data or shut the machine down while the window is nowhere on screen.

The first six rows are readings, not controls: they are disabled by design and carry the live login, VPN, Tor, IP, tunnel, DNS and identity state so you can check the machine without opening anything. Everything below them acts.
| # | Control | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kodachi, checking... | The first reading. It says Kodachi followed by what is protecting you right now: VPN + Tor, VPN (Kodachi network), VPN, Tor or no tunnel. It is rewritten every ten seconds and is disabled because it is a label, not a control. |
| 2 | Login: ... VPN: ... Tor: ... | Login, VPN and Tor state on one line. Disabled: it reports, it does not act. |
| 3 | IP: checking... | Your public address as the last probe saw it. Disabled: a reading. |
| 4 | Tunnel: checking... | Which tunnel is up, if any, and through what. Disabled: a reading. |
| 5 | DNS: checking... | Which resolver is answering and whether it is encrypted. Disabled: a reading. |
| 6 | Host: ... MAC: ... TZ: ... | Host name, hardware address and timezone as the machine currently presents them. Disabled: a reading. |
| 8 | Show Dashboard | Brings the window back and focuses it. A left click on the tray icon also shows a hidden window, and hides a shown one. |
| 9 | Compact mode | Shrinks the window to its compact layout, or restores the full one. |
| 10 | Nuke mode | Shrinks the window to a small panel with the Destroy button, a button that opens its options in Settings, an Always-on-top toggle, and a button that leaves the panel, because the window has no title bar in this mode. The dashboard's panels are hidden, not changed, and come back exactly as they were when you leave it or choose this row again. |
| 11 | Dashboardsubmenu | Opens the Dashboard group: 4 rows, further down this page. |
| 13 | Connectsubmenu | Opens the Connect group: 16 rows, further down this page. |
| 14 | Protectionsubmenu | Opens the Protection group: 8 rows, further down this page. |
| 15 | Network / DNSsubmenu | Opens the Network / DNS group: 11 rows, further down this page. |
| 16 | Identitysubmenu | Opens the Identity group: 8 rows, further down this page. |
| 17 | Sessionsubmenu | Opens the Session group: 3 rows, further down this page. |
| 19 | Dangersubmenu | Opens the Danger group: 5 rows, further down this page. |
| 21 | Login | Signs you in with the account saved on this machine and keeps the session alive by signing in again automatically when it expires. Once you are signed in the row reads Logout and clicking it ends the session. Nothing in this menu is hidden while you are signed out, but about forty rows run a command that refuses without a session, so they fail quietly until you sign in here or in the window. runs online-auth authenticate --relogin, or online-auth logout when signed in |
| 22 | Quit Kodachi | Quits the dashboard. Any tunnel, Tor routing and DNS (Domain Name System) setting the background services hold stays exactly as it is. The only things that stop are the WatchGuard watchers the dashboard itself started, and their saved state is cleared so the next start begins clean. |
The tick boxes are readings, not switches you set. A tick next to VPN, Tor or a protocol means a probe found it on. Clicking one asks for the change; the tick moves when the machine answers, not when you click.
An ellipsis means a confirmation follows. Every row in the Danger group ends in one, so do the identity rows that force a change, and so does Restore Default DNS in the Network group. Nine rows confirm in all; none of them acts on the click alone.
Nine of these rows finish in the window. They open a confirmation there rather than acting from the menu, so the tray will bring the window forward for those even though it hid it a moment ago.