Comment 26 for bug 1011073

I gave up trying to get the NM applet to work by using pkill nm-applet && nm-applet &

I mean, it works, but since I have to be in a terminal window to run pkill anyway, it is just easier for me to use one command to connect to the network that I want. So, I just run this, which works perfectly even if the applet is not working:

shell$ nmcli con up id <name of network to connect to>

This means that my NM applet is always screwed up (because of this bug), but at least I can connect to any network without worrying about making the applet work first by killing its process and then restarting it.

On a related note, I am surprised that this bug has existed since 12.04 and it still has not been fixed. Personally, I have two machines that my wife uses and that are still running 11.10 because, if I upgrade them, I can see her become very frustrated when she has to connect to a wireless network and the NM applet does not allow her to.

This bug has huge usability implications. I hope it can get fixed soon.

Cheers!