Reactivate the Network Manager

[NoOp]

On 09/19/2014 04:22 AM, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
> 
> (2014/09/18 6:48), NoOp wrote:
>> On 09/17/2014 10:20 AM, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
>>> Good morning
>>> The other day I remove "by accident" the Network Manager" from the
>>> notification area
>>> on a PC running xubuntu 14.01 (tuxtrans).
>>> It does not really matter, but I would like to bring it back to life.
>>>
>>> I tried using the Package Manager to reinstall/update the relevant
>>> packages (which one are those? there are millions ...)
>>> and the Package Manage did do something (no idea what it was), that took
>>> quite some while.
>>> No change.
>>> I also tried the command "sudo apt-get install network-manager-gnome".
>>> The computer tells me, the package is already installed and up-to-date.
>>> Right-click on panel trying to "Add New Items ..." there is no such item.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to bring that applet back?
>>> With other things I found that you can remove them and later put them
>>> back there ...
>> See if it actually is running:
>>
>> $ ps -e | grep NetworkManager
>> (note the caps)
>>
>> You should get a response similar to:
>>   1262 ?        00:00:00 NetworkManager
>>
>> If so, then Window(Super)key&Altkey - right click the panel|select 'Add
>> to Panel'|cick on 'Indicator Applet Complete|Click 'Add' and then
>> 'Close'. If the NetworkManager does not show up, then:
>>
>> $ killall NetworkManager
>>
>> it should show up now.
>>
> Thank you!
> As usual your advise showed a clear path to the solution of the problem.
> But ...
> I get TWO Network Manager applets instead of one.
> It all started out that way. When I tried to remove one, a whole bunch 
> of indicators vanished.
> They are now back, but there are 2 nm applets, 2 battery applets and 1 
> or 2 things more I do not need.
> 
> As it is, I can have either TWO applets .. or none.
> To my mind, that is not very smart.
> Can this be related to the fact, that the PC  in question supports both 
> 32 and 64-bit systems?
> Is there a way to convince the computer that I need only applet for each 
> thing?
> 
> 

You should be able to remove one of the indicator-applet-complete from
the panel:

Window(Super)key&Altkey - right click on the date/time of one of the two
& select 'Remove from Panel'. That should leave you with only one.