On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Brian Lavender <[email protected]> wrote: > > What can you do when the Network Manager icon disappears in Ubuntu on > the toolbar? > > It seems that this tool controls networking and it disappeared on a > friend's laptop that I installed Ubuntu on. I had to go through and > strangely figure out how to add it back to the toolbar. This is not the > first time the icon has disappeared and I don't seem to see a way to > get back to it after the "little icon" disappears. Command line? Menu?
The little icon in the notification area is provided by a program called nm-applet. You can run it by hand like this: nm-applet --sm-disable The sm-disable prevents it from registering with the gnome-session. You don't want to know. This should be automatically started for you when you log in. Try running the program gnome-session-properties. On the Startup Programs tab you should see "Network Manager". If you don't, add a new entry that looks like this: Name: Network Manager Command: nm-applet --sm-disable Comment: Control your network connections I'm also assuming that NetworkManager is actually running. nm-applet sends commands to the privileged NetworkManager daemon over DBus, which actually does all the work. sudo service network-manager restart If it's not running for some reason, you have other problems. -Kyle _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
