An Issue With nm-applet On Xubuntu-7.10

[Rich Shepard]

   I've no idea if this is a Xfce issue or a Xubuntu issue, but I'll start
here. This issue began when I replaced Slackware-11.0 with Xubuntu-7.04 on
my wife's ThinkPad 600E because I could not get sound working reliably and
consistenly with the former distribution. The issue continues with the
upgrade to Xubuntu-7.10.

   Specifically, each time the system boots, 7 instances of nm-applet appear
on the top panel bar (I assume it's a panel because it has application icons
along the left side and a close button on the right edge). This network
manager is not needed, especially not 7 times.

   I've run 'killall nm-applet' and they go away. I've taken references to
that application out of ~/.configure/*, out of the session/desktop file, and
from autostart. But, each time the system is rebooted, back they come! A
colleague and I spent more than an hour yesterday trying to figure out how
to kill them so they would not return. We failed.

   Any ideas? While they seem harmless, nm-applet doesn't need to run as the
network comes up during boot, and we certainly don't need multiple instances
of it running.

TIA,

Rich

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