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rin

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Registered: 2013-12-24

Posts: 31

[SOLVED] Network manager applet displaying wrong icon

Hi,

I use xfce, and have the Notification Area item in my panel, which includes the network manager applet:

As you can see from the screenshot, the icon is the no connection icon. This is the wrong icon, as I am connected to my wifi network.
You can see from my terminal window in the background that I am definitely connected, and I am not plugged in to ethernet ports or any other way.

I've had this bug for about a couple of months now, which seems to coincide with when I updated network-manager-applet from 1.2.4 to 1.4.0.
I recently updated to 1.4.2, but the bug still exists.
There are 5 icons for different signal levels, 0/25/50/75/100%. Sometimes the icon will change to the 0% signal level icon, and then stay like that.

I am using the Moka icon set, but the problem exists no matter what icon set I use.

Has anyone experienced this bug, or does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks

Last edited by rin (2016-11-10 23:33:23)

justasug

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Registered: 2014-08-03

Posts: 174

Re: [SOLVED] Network manager applet displaying wrong icon

Did you resume from suspend when that happened? Whenever I resume from suspend, the applet shows the "no connection" icon and left clicking it doesn't show any networks, but a "disconnect" entry. This used to happen months ago, got fixed, but started happening again recently.
Check out this thread, it sounds like it might be related and there's a "workaround".

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=218861

rin

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Registered: 2013-12-24

Posts: 31

Re: [SOLVED] Network manager applet displaying wrong icon

Yes, I reboot maybe once a month, and 99% of the time I resume from suspend.
Thanks for the link, that helps. I will follow the bugzilla thread.