Since the first login to a (fairly) new install of Slowroll on a USB thumbdrive with the Xfce desktop, the Xfce panel has displayed two network icons. It doesn’t affect the network connectivity in any way and when I right-click each icon, the same device ID for the network card is displayed for both, but for one icon, the ID is displayed in bold, while on the second icon, it’s not. Mousing over one does not display any information, but ‘Network’ is displayed mousing over the other. There is only one network card installed.
On my other openSUSE installs (both Tumbleweed and Slowroll) with Xfce, only one network icon is displayed in the panel.
Any chance this could be a bug, or being installed to a thumbdrive might have something to do with it? Thanks in advance.
I have since found two bug reports at another distro, on this same issue, the oldest is from 2017. Neither shows a resolution. There was mention of a particular plugin causing this, but that plugin and package was deprecated in a prior release of Xfce and that specific package is not in the openSUSE repositories today.
@conram Nothing there, it was one of the first items I checked.
@deano_ferrari I have not created an extra account to test. Since this began with a new install, I can’t see it not occurring with a secondary account. I don’t think it’s specific to the user enviroment, since it’s also reported with another distro, so I would now have to consider it an upstream issue.
Restarting the panel with xfce4-panel --restart removes the duplicate icon. Although on subsequent reboots, the duplicate icon appearing was intermittent.
@epp If you right click the plugin with the extra nm applet what is the name of the plugin. also in the xfce4-settings manager session & startup is there extra nm running under the current session.
@conram Today, the duplicate network icon has not appeared, so maybe this corrected itself?
I just checked Session and Startup. On the Current Session tab, Network Manager is not listed. It’s only listed under Application Autostart, it’s listed once, is checked and triggered at login.
