network manager was pre-installed with ubuntu 12.04 on my laptop and was accessible from my top panel system tray on the desktop until today when I rebooted after a failed install of a different package that was trying to add itself to the system tray area also
now the network manager menu icon is gone from the tray though other icons such as battery and messaging are still there I can get nm-applet to show up but this is not the same the applet area is further left, the applet menu renders in a way that clashes with the user theme, and it is impossible to use the keyboard to navigate to the applet by contrast, the default network manager application was aware of the theme and had an appearance consistent with the other dropdowns, and it also could be entered via arrow keys from the other system tray menus I have spent several hours looking for documentation on what manager is responsible for displaying these system tray application entries (as opposed to the applets) and what resource governs the choice of which programs get included here, but I really think I have reached a dead end I am wondering if you can point me to the relevant install scripts in the netw ork manager package that might bear on this I have already tried uninstall and reinstall of network-manager, network-manager-gnome, gnome-panel, unity etc if I run network manager from command line it never becomes visible but apparently does something as a background process thanks for any help _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
