Network Manager disappears once again

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Using XFCE. The Network Manager icon has disappeared from my tray. How do I get it back?

:~> systemctl status NetworkManager
● NetworkManager.service - Network Manager
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
     Active: active (running) since Thu 2025-05-29 09:35:02 CST; 33min ago
       Docs: man:NetworkManager(8)
   Main PID: 891 (NetworkManager)
      Tasks: 5 (limit: 4915)
        CPU: 2.859s
     CGroup: /system.slice/NetworkManager.service
             └─891 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon
ion@localhost:~>

Thanks in advance.

2

Your title says “once again”. How did you fix it the previous times?

3

That was last year, and I can’t remember. At that time I used nmtui to connect.

4

Does maybe this link help?
https://askubuntu.com/questions/517467/how-to-display-network-manager-icon-on-the-xfce-panel

Is libappindicator3-1 installed?

5

I worked through the link but it didn’t help, and yes libappindicator3-1 is installed.

6

Could this be causing the problem?

ion@localhost:~> sudo nm-applet
[sudo] password for root: 

(nm-applet:8350): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:27:41.145: cannot open display: 
ion@localhost:~>
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Using YaST I switched from Network Manager to Wicked and then back again. Nothing changed.

8

That is normal. Try nm-applet as your user.

9

It wouldn’t stop.

ion@localhost:~> nm-applet

(nm-applet:9826): dbind-WARNING **: 12:33:16.507: AT-SPI: Error retrieving accessibility bus address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.a11y.Bus was not provided by any .service files
^C
ion@localhost:~>