how to avoid the nm-applet wireless icon in the panel?

[farinet at arcor.de]

I've a nice conky running which gives me all infos i need about
wire(d)less connections, so, i'd like to not have the nm-applet in the
panel bar.

Now, i tried in all ways to avoid this, but i do not succeed. Looked
into ~/.config/lxsession/Lubuntu, into /etc/xdg/* etc. but i did not
find any way, how to do that.

I deleted /etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop. But to no result. I
suspect the icon in the panel might be related to network-manager-gnome
- but i cannot remove this package since lubuntu-desktop depends on it.

Thanks in advance for any idea!