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gardenair

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Registered: 2021-08-17

Posts: 42

[Solved]How enable Lan and WiFi icon on XFCE desktop

Hi,
      I am using "XFCE4" on my Dell Latitude 3430 laptop.  I have two questions related to LAN and WiFi icon on my try bar . The LAN is on DHCP and  to use internet I just huck-up my LAN cable into my laptop LAN port.By using  firfox browser my internet works fine.
The thing which I want to see that there is no network icon when I use my LAN cable .Normally there are two tiny monitors shows that LAN is connected or not. How may I see the icon of LAN which it is connected ?

2-My laptop shows that wifi is enable but i can't see any applet from which I can select my SSID and connect to WiFi.

If I use command  the following commands

[root@testpc ~]# nmcli connection
NAME                UUID                                  TYPE      DEVICE 
Wired connection 1  c2a4-e56-34y6-u8y6-2e4-3fd66607  	ethernet  eno1   
lo                  250av55c-b6x7-5bbn-xyz87-90pp67ee4v1q5  loopback  lo  
   
[root@testpc ~]# nmcli device
DEVICE  TYPE      STATE                   CONNECTION         
eno1    ethernet  connected               Wired connection 1 
lo      loopback  connected (externally)  lo                 
wlp2s0  wifi      disconnected            --     

            
[root@testpc ~]# nmcli device wifi list
IN-USE  BSSID              SSID                          MODE   CHAN  RATE     >
        00:90:88:2F:55:1k  Home-wifi                      Infra  2     270 Mbit/>
        00:88:2F:t6:13:00  Click-me			 Infra  11    130 Mbit/>
        52:GT:39:CQ:A7:J3  apple                       	Infra  4     130 Mbit/>
        44:3F:53:37:O9:W3  2nd-floor                      Infra  1     270 Mbit/>

please guide me that how may I see/enable  the LAN and WiFi connection icon on top right side of my XFCE4 desktop.

Last edited by gardenair (2024-03-06 04:36:26)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,267

Re: [Solved]How enable Lan and WiFi icon on XFCE desktop

There's network-manager-applet: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x8 … er-applet/ for a standalone applet implementation

gardenair

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Registered: 2021-08-17

Posts: 42

Re: [Solved]How enable Lan and WiFi icon on XFCE desktop

Thanks for the reply & valuable guidance.

[root@testpc ~]# pacman -S network-manager-applet 

Last edited by gardenair (2024-03-06 04:36:06)