nm-applet doesn't show in tray

[A.Kromic]

It does work, it does provide notification "baloons", and if I click around the tray I might even get its menu. However, there is nothing to be seen, perhaps like it has shrunken into a single pixel.

The system is Xubuntu Intrepid/8.10, upgraded from Hardy/8.04 (since first Intrepid Beta). It worked fine in Hardy, since the upgrade, the icon has vanished.

Package version is:
network-manager-gnome:
  Installed: 0.7~~svn20081020t000444-0ubuntu1

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nm-applet
IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
Package: network-manager-gnome 0.7~~svn20081020t000444-0ubuntu1
SourcePackage: network-manager-applet
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic x86_64

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

please ensure that there is nothing configured in /etc/network/interfaces. NM wont manage your devices configured there by default and won't appear if there are no devices managable.

this is a dupe of bug 289466.

[A.Kromic (akromic)]

There is nothing configured in interfaces but lo.
NM does indeed manage my network connections, just I cannot see the applet icon.

[A.Kromic (akromic)]

Forgot to add: per above, it's not a duplicate of the mentioned bug.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

attach your complete syslog please after reproducing.

[A.Kromic (akromic)]

Within the archive is the syslog.
I've also included some screenshots... two of them show that nm-applet is actually the dot between the gnome-power-manager and update-manager icons (look carefully!) The evidence for that is the image of the message balloon coming exactly from that dot; also, right clicking on the dot brings up the nm's menu.

However, I've discovered that the icon reappears if I move systray applet to a horizontal panel (it is normally on a vertical one). Perhaps it's a bug of the Xfce systray applet? (See screenshot of the horizontal systray)

[A.Kromic (akromic)]

Ok, seems noone is interested in this, and nobody listens when i say it has nothing to do with /etc/interfaces. Right. Moving on...

Now, I'm not really sure if this is a bug of NM or perhaps of the Xfce systray. I think I'll repost this bug as pertaining to Xfce systray, but I'm not sure which package it belongs to. Since I haven't found a separarate binary/process for it, I guess it is part of Xfce Panel. If someone could confirm so not to post in the wrong place...

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Indeed, this is a known bug of the panel.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

akromic wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 289466 ***
>
fwiw, this is now fixed in intrepid-updates.