Tray icon only visible in the first opened session.

[Julien Fouquet]

Binary package hint: network-manager

Use case:
- the computer has just been started, user A logs in.
- the network manager icon appears, < RIGHT.
- user B needs the computer, but user A does not want to lose his work. They click on "User B" in the loggin applet, so user A's session is not closed and goes to the background.
- user B enters his password and gets to his session. The network manager's tray icon is missing. < WRONG

This has to be investigated a little further, but here is more information. Suppose we resume the use case above:
- any new other opened session won't see the tray icon;
- if all session are closed, then opening a new one will display the icon again.

It seems to really be that only session 1 has the network manager's tray icon to display. This is not a new bug and has been around for so many different ubuntu releases I can't remember when it worked right. (I usually am the only user on my computer but do take care of the family's computer that has multiple users on it, occasionally).

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
Release: 10.04

$ apt-cache policy network-manager
network-manager:
  Installed: 0.8-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 0.8-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 0.8-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I could not find any particular package for nm-applet, so I suppose it's part of the network-manager package.

What I expect to happen: the network manager's tray icon should show in any user session, no matter how many of these are running. The network manager itself, of course, should not be started more than once at a time. I am only considering the applet. As it is today, non-super-user B would have no means to troubleshoot his network connectivity (unless rebooting the computer and losing all of the other users' work).

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Confirming, known issue in nm-applet.