Missing network icon and battery icon from wingpanel

[Carlos Araiza]

After some updates with elementary os freya the network icon and battery icon have vanished. The network is working fine i just don't see an icon for it. The same goes for the battery and it works fine. I am able to still change my settings through switchboard. I have re-installed wing-panel through synaptic i even explored dconf editor to see what i can do to solve this. I added the nm-applet to startup applications and nothing changed. When i run nm-applet in terminal i get

** (nm-applet:3800): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-oLJk7qALbu: Connection refused
nm-applet-Message: using fallback from indicator to GtkStatusIcon

I have searched the internet for a fix and im running out of ideas..
Can anyone help?

[Victor Martinez (victored)]

Unable to reproduce. Did you check if the indicators were actually installed?

[Or Schiro (orschiro)]

I am affected by the same bug. My battery and bluetooth indicators suddenly disappeared.

I am using the latest Freya Beta 2.

Can I provide you with more information?

How can I check if these indicators are maybe uninstalled?

[Ariel Méndez (arielmendez)]

I had the same problem with Freya beta 2 and solved it installing indicator-power (sudo apt-get install indicator-power)

[Or Schiro (orschiro)]

Hi Ariel,

Thank you very much for your comment! This also solved my problem. On my Freya Beta 2 installation the following indicator packages were missing:

indicator-power, indicator-bluetooth, indicator-keyboard

Why are they not installed by default?

I use Freya on a Thinkpad X230 which comes with bluetooth. Shouldn't this be detected and the respective indicator thus automatically be installed?

[derich (sixfeed)]

I can confirm that bug in beta 0.3

reinstalling the indicator packs is the solution

[Cody Garver (codygarver)]

Did you install Wine or Skype or Google Chrome before they disappeared?

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 3:56 AM, derich <email address hidden> wrote:

> I can confirm that bug in beta 0.3
>
> reinstalling the indicator packs is the solution
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[Or Schiro (orschiro)]

Hi Cody,

I cannot say it with absolute certainty but I definitely installed Skype
and Chromium, yes.

In what ways is that related to the missing indicator packages?

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Cody Garver <email address hidden> wrote:

> Did you install Wine or Skype or Google Chrome before they disappeared?
>
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 3:56 AM, derich <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> > I can confirm that bug in beta 0.3
> >
> > reinstalling the indicator packs is the solution
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> Title:
> Missing network icon and battery icon from wingpanel
>
> Status in WingPanel:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> After some updates with elementary os freya the network icon and
> battery icon have vanished. The network is working fine i just don't
> see an icon for it. The same goes for the battery and it works fine. I
> am able to still change my settings through switchboard. I have re-
> installed wing-panel through synaptic i even explored dconf editor to
> see what i can do to solve this. I added the nm-applet to startup
> applications and nothing changed. When i run nm-applet in terminal i
> get
>
> ** (nm-applet:3800): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus:
> Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-oLJk7qALbu: Connection refused
> nm-applet-Message: using fallback from indicator to GtkStatusIcon
>
> I have searched the internet for a fix and im running out of ideas..
> Can anyone help?
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/wingpanel/+bug/1391618/+subscriptions
>

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[derich (sixfeed)]

I installed Chrome and Skype, also used the chrome dublicate icon fix

[Anton Stoilkov (anton.stoilkov)]

The main reason why these indicators are missing is because of chrome. When i was installing chrome-stable using gdebi for some reason the following dependencies are getting removed:
indicator-application
xdg-user-dirs
xdg-user-dirs-gtk
I haven't tried to install chrome right now because i don't want them removed again but i guess if you try and install these dependencies the indicators should show up again.

[Or Schiro (orschiro)]

Hi Anton,

Very good observation. I guess the same is happening when installing Chromium which I have installed.

~ ❯❯❯ sudo apt-get install indicator-application xdg-user-dirs xdg-user-dirs-gtk ⏎
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
xdg-user-dirs is already the newest version.
xdg-user-dirs-gtk is already the newest version.
indicator-application is already the newest version.
indicator-application set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.

[Anton Stoilkov (anton.stoilkov)]

Also another thing i have notice is whenever I run 'sudo apt-get autoremove' it actually removes important dependencies within the system. I actually don't understand why... in addition people with hybrid graphics card such as me get stuck and is either having to:

'ctrl + alt + F1'

'sudo apt-get purge nvidia*' -which leaves me only with the intel drivers and it boots up normally but if you install them again will also have to reinstall the 'linux-headers-generic' in order to boot.

or

'sudo apt-get remove xinit' - which is 50/50 of actually booting up

'sudo reboot'

[invernosantigos (invernosantigos)]

    Wait a minute ... we are disregarding 3 things (excuse the bad English google translate): A) The bug affects more 64-bit machines; B) The wingpanel developers did a good job and was widely publicized by the public itself, the problems only began to appear long after; C) The problem arises only after some machine updates, ie appeared, now comes at the same time.

    I conclude then that the bug is not in wingpanel, but in some dependence on him that was updated later. As one problem that happened to Libgranite1 in Luna. Perhaps becoming a "downgrade" depending on the problem resolves itself. The problem could also be a dependency of the Gala. It should be something that has been updated after the release of wingpanel, and is more sensitive in 64-bit machines.

     I will experiment with those dependencies that the russian (Stoilkov) pointed out. Wait a minute ... we are disregarding 3 things (excuse the bad English google translate): A) The bug affects more 64-bit machines; B) The wingpanel developers did a good job and was widely publicized by the public itself, the problems only began to appear long after; C) The problem arises only after some machine updates, ie appeared, now comes at the same time.

    I conclude then that the bug is not in wingpanel, but in some dependence on him that was updated later. As one problem that happened to Libgranite1 in Luna. Perhaps becoming a "downgrade" depending on the problem resolves itself. The problem could also be a dependency of the Gala. It should be something that has been updated after the release of wingpanel, and is more sensitive in 64-bit machines.

     I will experiment with those dependencies that the Russian (Stolnikov) pointed out. Other addictions is beyond my knowledge.

[invernosantigos (invernosantigos)]

      No, it will not be so easy. They (xdg-user-dirs;
xdg-user-dirs-gtk) has previous versions. If my hypothesis is correct, it is in another dependency.

    Even I know the wingpanel dependencies!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for WingPanel because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Andrew (anjp)]

I know it's an old thread, but I'm experiencing the same problem with the Bluetooth icon missing from Wingpanel.

I have tried reinstalling indicator-bluetooth without any positive results.
When I access Bluetooth from System menu it says "Bluetooth is disabled"

[Zisu Andrei (matzipan)]

Please file a different bug report