Leap 42.2 Gnome and no Network Icon on Top bar

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Dear OpenSuse Friends,

after my first install I praised I OpenSuse for its stability until the first update made my Leap 42.2 KDE install a black screen - not even ready for deployment.

Now I am trying again OpenSuse 42.2 with Gnome and at least i didn’t get a black screen of death, however, there is no network icon at the top bar and even after i setup the wireless network it still doesn’y show up.

Any idea how to get that network icon?

I am testing this system to get a trouble free stable OS for my wife’s laptop and am not available to fix it for a month or even longer.

Right now, OpenSuse gave me so much trouble which i never experienced with Arch, ever. I got to stop here or I get very impolite and rant about lots of things.

Still, might be a learning curve, just trouble free and stable, haven’t seen that just yet.

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Hi
Not using wicked are you? Check via YaST -> System -> Network Settings and on the Global Options tab, is it set to Wicked service? If so, switch to NetworkManager service.

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Shame on me, that was set from installation on, changed it and all is good. Thanks a lot for your quick and good help

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Black screens are a video problem so what GPU??

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NVIDIA GT730, but I believe it is a KDE thing as it didn’t happen in my Gnome install.

I opened another post where I asked how to not get the black screen for the KDE update.

I might just try the net installer and will see what that does, maybe I don’t pull that nasty bit of software doing it to me.

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Driver? KDE does not always like nouveau :’(