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

[David Rosenstrauch]

On 03/20/2011 01:22 PM, Chris G wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 05:15:45PM +0000, Chris G wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 05:09:34PM +0100, Al Bogner wrote:
>>> Am So, 20 Mär 2011 15:44:11 CET schrieb Chris G:
>>>
>>>> I have just uograded from xubuntu 10.04 to xubuntu 10.10, thus I am
>>>> now running xfce 4.6.2.
>>>>
>>>> I can't find any sort of Network Manager applet or way to view my
>>>> Network settings.  It *may* be that because of the slightly odd route
>>>> I took to get to xubuntu it never got installed.  Anyway, either I
>>>> need to install something or I need to make an applet appear
>>>> somewhere, can anyone tell me what I need (or where I need to look)
>>>> to be able to see (and hopefully reconfigure) my network settings?
>>>
>>> which nm-applet
>>> /usr/bin/nm-applet
>>>
>>> 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.

I've found that if nm-applet is running but the networkmanager daemon is 
not then the applet disappears from the taskbar.  Perhaps that's the 
issue here?

HTH,

DR