Lost icon from panel notification area

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Using XFCE. I have a wired connection and wi-fi and I used to have an icon in the notofication area of my panel that I could click to switch from one to the other. It has disappeared and XFCE help was not helpful. I tried…

 > nm-applet
No protocol specified
No protocol specified

…and I don’t understand what that means.

Any help will be appreciated.

2

What does the following report?

cat /etc/hostname

Is your NetworkManager connection configured to change the hostname perhaps? Just in case something like this is impacting…

3

Do you have the notification area applet activated?

Also try to start it using “dbus-launch nm-applet” instead of plain “nm-applet”.

4 
 ion@localhost:~> cat /etc/hostnameion@localhost:~>

But I am connected to both eth0 and wi-fi.

5

Yes it’s activated.

  ~> dbus-launch nm-appletNo protocol specified
No protocol specified
No protocol specified


(nm-applet:3954): nm-applet-WARNING **: 12:05:15.171: An agent with this ID is already registered for this user.

But in my search for a solution, I found a very simple one that appeals to me.

 ion@localhost:~> nmcli con down INFINITUM7B5A
Connection 'INFINITUM7B5A' successfully deactivated (D-Bus active path: /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/2)
ion@localhost:~> nmcli con up INFINITUM7B5A
Connection successfully activated (D-Bus active path: /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/3)

It appeals, as using the command line I learn more about how things work, while clicking on an icon tells me less until it fails and then it’s more difficult to understand what cause the failure.

6

Nothing wrong with using nmcli, but that’s not what you asked about in your opening post.

7

[QUOTE=ionmich;3057686]Yes it’s activated.

  ~> dbus-launch nm-appletNo protocol specified
No protocol specified
No protocol specified


(nm-applet:3954): nm-applet-WARNING **: 12:05:15.171: An agent with this ID is already registered for this user.

It’s already active (but just not visible)? I’m not an XFCE user, but is there a chance that you simply need to right-click on the panel and add the indicator-plugin again?

https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=12843

Just a thought.

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[quote="“deano_ferrari,post:7,topic:147137”]

I followed the above link and its instructions and indeed there was an nm-applet box that was not selected. I selected it and rebooted. Nothing changed. Thanks for the help but I am stopping here.

9

Ok, that is your choice.