As far as I can tell, the problem is that when the network manager is in some particular, unknown, state, the applet is rendered without an icon, and only a single invisible pixel area for the purposes of bringing up left and right click menus.
This issue is sometimes confused with people who've removed their notification area. Most nm specific 'solutions' have unreliable results — they push nm into a state with an icon for some people but not others. The only solution that worked reliably for me under lucid was to restart the network manager, but that only worked until the next reboot. Later, for some unknown reason, the machine would boot with the applet visible. The underlying problem is that the applet permits begin rendered in the notification area without an icon. Instead, it should generate a standin and emit a warning to stderr so folks have a chance at reporting something closer to the real problem. -- nm-applet icon missing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/553115 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
