running "sudo nm-applet &" seems to get it showing in the notification area for me. No change in appearance of Notification Area settings.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager-applet in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1301158 Title: nm-applet icon invisible Status in “network-manager-applet” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: nm-applet's icon is invisible since last session, when it suddenly disappeared. System has been rebooted, but the icon didn't appear again. So i'm currently not able to select a network, turn on/off networks, edit networks and so on. $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu Trusty Tahr (development branch) Release: 14.0 Contains all updates as of 2014/04/01. Running 3.14 kernel. $ apt-cache policy network-manager network-manager: Installed: 0.9.8.8-0ubuntu5 Candidate: 0.9.8.8-0ubuntu5 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: network-manager-gnome 0.9.8.8-0ubuntu3 Uname: Linux 3.14.0-031400-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.14-0ubuntu1 Architecture: i386 CurrentDesktop: XFCE Date: Wed Apr 2 07:42:58 2014 EcryptfsInUse: Yes ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nm-applet IfupdownConfig: # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8) auto lo iface lo inet loopback InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-03-21 (11 days ago) InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha i386 (20140225) IpRoute: default via 192.168.43.1 dev wlan0 proto static 192.168.43.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.43.14 metric 9 NetworkManager.state: [main] NetworkingEnabled=true WirelessEnabled=true WWANEnabled=true WimaxEnabled=true ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=de_DE PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: network-manager-applet UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) nmcli-con: NAME UUID TYPE TIMESTAMP TIMESTAMP-REAL AUTOCONNECT READONLY DBUS-PATH Bob Vorgabe 8ba5fa89-4c5d-4f06-a3ff-4bdeb457f99b gsm 1396367611 Di 01 Apr 2014 17:53:31 CEST no no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/2 michigreat-hotspot 1ca2fab0-b64c-4eec-b77c-70c7827d7217 802-11-wireless 1396417354 Mi 02 Apr 2014 07:42:34 CEST yes no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/1 greatwlan2 d0efc775-adbe-4260-910f-567dc8dd54fc 802-11-wireless 1396382625 Di 01 Apr 2014 22:03:45 CEST yes no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/0 Kabelnetzwerkverbindung 1 c0551746-459f-40bd-be68-8a8ded54f2bc 802-3-ethernet 1396415555 Mi 02 Apr 2014 07:12:35 CEST yes no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/3 nmcli-dev: DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH eth0 802-3-ethernet unavailable /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1 wlan0 802-11-wireless connected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0 nmcli-nm: RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN running 0.9.8.8 connected enabled enabled enabled enabled disabled To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/1301158/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
