I experience exactly the same problem. Its annoying easily reproducible. My wife wants me to install windoze because of this. and thats not an option.
Its seems the easiest workaround is to restart the machine and login with that account. Importance of this bug? -- [intrepid] network-manager, missing icon on the system tray or notification area after switching to a different user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/284162 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs