[xubuntu-users] Xubuntu 14.10 not showing nm-applet - icons missing?

[Steve Litt]

On Thu, 8 May 2014 12:34:40 +0100
Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> I have still not got my nm-applet icon back in the panel on one of my
> xubuntu 14.04 systems.  The network works OK but there's no applet
> icon which can be a bit annoying when connecting to WiFi etc.

Me too. Same, newly installed 14.04 on a laptop.
> 
> The nm-applet can be made to appear by running it as root, it gives a
> warning though:-
> 
>     root at acer-aspire:~# nm-applet &
>     root at acer-aspire:~# nm-applet-Message: using fallback from
> indicator to GtkStatusIcon

I "solved" the problem by putting myself in sudoers as nopasswd for
nm-applet, then I made an Xfce launcher that launched nm-applet in a
terminal using sudo. Works perfectly. Good enough for me, because I
assume sooner or later either it will be fixed, or others will do
writeups on the clean solution.

SteveT

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