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jocom

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Registered: 2009-04-29

Posts: 74

[solved] nm-applet does not show up in Gnome panel

Hi all,

I installed networkmanager, network-manager-applet and dbus this afternoon. As well as a fresh install of Gnome. This is all done on my laptop, which my wife wants to use now and then. I always set up the network CLI, but now I will need a nice flashy applet in the Gnome panel.
I managed to run the network-connection-editor as root, and got the network up.

I had some dbus problems when I tried launching nm-applet, but fixed it with a dbus-hack I found in some other thread. But when I now launch nm-applet, it says that there allready is an instance running of nm-applet.

I guess it should show up in the panel, if it is. But I don't see anything there... Do you have any ideas of what I forgot to install/configure/check.

Thanks,
jocom

Last edited by jocom (2011-02-19 19:46:58)

stlarch

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From: hell

Registered: 2010-12-25

Posts: 1,265

Re: [solved] nm-applet does not show up in Gnome panel

There have been a couple similar posts recently. I'm not using Gnome anymore or networkmanager, so I don't know if there's a problem with it or not. If I remember correctly I had to install gnome-panel-bonobo, and I believe python-notify and gksu too. You can do a search on the wiki for networkmanager, there is a page for it that explains the configuration changes you'll need to make. Hope it helps.

Last edited by stlarch (2011-02-19 18:16:26)

stlarch

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From: hell

Registered: 2010-12-25

Posts: 1,265

Re: [solved] nm-applet does not show up in Gnome panel

I forgot, you might need modemmanager and maybe usb_modeswitch for certain wireless broadband modems I think, if you'll be using one of those. You'll probably want to install dbus-python also if you don't have it already.

Last edited by stlarch (2011-02-19 18:41:54)

jocom

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Registered: 2009-04-29

Posts: 74

Re: [solved] nm-applet does not show up in Gnome panel

Thanks! Its working now.