Same here (also XFCE). Upgraded from saucy to trusty on 2014-04-06, everything up to date and working. Booting today (2014-04-10) and the nm-applet icon is not visible. Killing and restarting nm-applet from the command line does not help.
$ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu Trusty Tahr (development branch) Release: 14.04 $ apt-cache policy network-manager network-manager: Installed: 0.9.8.8-0ubuntu5 Candidate: 0.9.8.8-0ubuntu5
Same here (also XFCE). Upgraded from saucy to trusty on 2014-04-06, everything up to date and working. Booting today (2014-04-10) and the nm-applet icon is not visible. Killing and restarting nm-applet from the command line does not help.
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu Trusty Tahr (development branch)
Release: 14.04
$ apt-cache policy network-manager
network-manager:
Installed: 0.9.8.8-0ubuntu5
Candidate: 0.9.8.8-0ubuntu5