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

[Al Bogner]

Am Mo, 21 Mär 2011 09:59:28 CET schrieb 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.

Wicd doesn't support UMTS-connections or was there a change in the last
months?

With my Xubuntu 10.10 network-manager-gnome
0.8.1+git.20100809t190028.290dc70-0ubuntu3 works fine. Maybe you try to
_purge_  your version and try again.

I noticed with the Opensuse 11.3-version, that the applet wasn't visible
in the panel, but it became visible, when clementine was opened,
which adds an icon to the panel. Maybe this is your problem.

Al