Network Manager or equivalent - where should I be able to find it?

[Chris G]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 05:22:00PM +0000, Chris G wrote:
> > > Start it manually, configure everything, so it is working, then add
> > > nm-applet to the autostart of XFCE, sorry don't know how it is called
> > > in English exactly.
> > > 
> > Ah, problem:-
> > 
> >     chris$ /usr/bin/nm-applet &
> >     [1] 10409
> >     chris$ An instance of nm-applet is already running.
> > 
> > However it's not visible anywhere, how can I get to see it?  :-)
> > 
> In fact there's something odd going on here. (I have other xubuntu
> systems where all seems to be well, not yet upgraded to 10.10 yet
> though). 
> 
> If I kill and restart the nm-applet it all *seems* to work OK but I
> still can't see anything, I definitely do have a notification area
> though and there are other things visible in it.
> 
>     chris$ which nm-applet
>     /usr/bin/nm-applet
>     chris$ /usr/bin/nm-applet &
>     [1] 10409
>     chris$ An instance of nm-applet is already running.
>     ^C
>     [1]+  Exit 1                  /usr/bin/nm-applet
>     chris$ ps -ef | grep nm-applet
>     chris     2930     1  0 Mar19 ?        00:00:00 nm-applet --sm-disable
>     chris    10461  2790  0 17:16 pts/6    00:00:00 grep nm-applet
>     chris$ kill -15 2930
>     chris$ ps -ef | grep nm-applet
>     chris    10467  2790  0 17:16 pts/6    00:00:00 grep nm-applet
>     chris$ nm-applet
>     ** Message: applet now removed from the notification area
>     ** Message: applet now embedded in the notification area
>     ** (nm-applet:10469): DEBUG: old state indicates that this was not a disconnect 0
> 
Well I've found a solution - uninstall Network Manager and install wicd
instead, much better behaved, it doesn't mess about with my /etc/hosts
*and* it appears in the notification area OK.

-- 
Chris Green