I am running Ubuntu 12.04 and was not experiencing this problem until I installed the following packages at which time the nm-applet began only showing the stated 4 menu items:
Uninstalling these packages did not return the nm-applet to normal behavior.
The current solution(s) I am using, as described by others, is to either kill/restart nm-applet or toggle the "Enable Networking" menu selection of the applet.
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 and was not experiencing this problem until I installed the following packages at which time the nm-applet began only showing the stated 4 menu items:
openconnect 3.15-0ubuntu2 manager- openconnect 0.9.4.0-0ubuntu1 manager- openconnect- gnome 0.9.4.0-0ubuntu1
libopenconnect1 3.15-0ubuntu2
network-
network-
Uninstalling these packages did not return the nm-applet to normal behavior.
The current solution(s) I am using, as described by others, is to either kill/restart nm-applet or toggle the "Enable Networking" menu selection of the applet.