An Issue With nm-applet On Xubuntu-7.10

[Erik Harrison]

On 10/22/07, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>    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.

Anytime you have something coming up at login you want to go away, you
can kill them and log out -saving your session-.

If they still return at login it's a nm-applet/Xubuntu problem.

>
> TIA,
>
> Rich
>
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