same problem here for ubuntu 9.10 karmic koala: only the first user who logs in will have the icon which is invisible to others who log after.
no solution found: solved by installing another network manager (wicd works fine for me) In my opinion developers of nm must ask to the developers of wicd how to solve the problem and in the meanwhile developers of ubuntu must consider the idea to replace nm with wicd for future realeses. I wasted a lot of time trying to make an applet woking while there's another one just working fine! It's obvious to me that a fresh install must be fully working as much as possible! So give nm up and replace it with any working applet like wicd to avoid future users to loose their time on a very old and well known no-solvable bug!!! http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/2591/ I'm very angry to have wasted my time over this :| -- [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