[lubuntu-users] How to get back the wifi icon in taskbar (Wilbert Heeringa)

[Fritz Hudnut]

WH:

Thanks for the follow up, glad someone could help out with it . . . .

F

On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 2:41 AM Wilbert Heeringa <wjheeringa at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Fritz,
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Ranger5 advised me to run:
>
> nm-tray applet show
>
> After getting back the Status Notifier Plugin I ran this.
>
> Then I logged out and logged in and it was solved.
>
> --Wilbert
>
>
>
>
> Op di 30 jun. 2020 om 16:19 schreef Fritz Hudnut <este.el.paz at gmail.com>:
>
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>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I am using Lubuntu 20.04 LTS.
>>>
>>> I accidentally lost the wifi icon in the taskbar in the bottom right. I
>>> need it since I have to switch wifi connections (since my printer is
>>> connected via wifi).
>>>
>>> I tried:
>>> right-click taskbar
>>> Choose ‘Configure Panel’
>>> Click ‘Widgets’
>>> Click on +
>>> …
>>>
>>> Then I don’t know what to do, there is nothing in the list that seems to
>>> include the wifi icon. There is a ‘Network monitor’, but that’s something
>>> else, it does not give me a list of wifi connections which I can choose
>>> from.
>>>
>>> Via the Start button you can choose >Preferences >Advanced Network
>>> Configuration, but it does not solve the problem either.
>>>
>>> Does anybody know a solution?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> @Wilbert:
>>
>> Did you try a basic apt update/upgrade??  I recall that over the years
>> the wifi applet would disappear, or sometimes show up as two applets . . .
>> problem seems to come and go, and often the next update/upgrade will
>> resolve the problem, or a couple of them?  Otherwise in terms of how to go
>> into the console and fix the problem . . . I don't know.
>>
>> F
>>
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