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slackcub

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Registered: 2009-03-14

Posts: 144

nm-applet in xfce not displaying in notifications section

Hello everyone, I'm not sure if this is related to a recent update as I typically use a wired connection on my laptop so I don't really pay attention to the network applet, however, I am in a coffee shop, and I tried to connect to their wifi, but was unable to as the NetworkManager applet was not showing up in my notification area. It is selected to startup with xfce, and it is currently running. However, it's not displaying.  Any thoughts on what I could to help this?

$ ps -ef | grep nm-applet | grep -v grep
slackcub   802   712  0 15:48 tty1     00:00:01 nm-applet

Current versions of the packages:

$ pacman -Q | grep "network[-]*manager"
network-manager-applet 1.0.0-1
networkmanager 1.0.0-2
networkmanager-openconnect 1.0.0-1

Current NetworkManager status: (note, I'm currently tethered to my phone, which was a stored connection)

$ sudo systemctl status NetworkManager
● NetworkManager.service - Network Manager
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Sat 2015-04-11 15:46:59 CDT; 16min ago
 Main PID: 300 (NetworkManager)
   CGroup: /system.slice/NetworkManager.service
           ├─300 /usr/bin/NetworkManager --no-daemon
           └─534 /usr/bin/dhclient -d -q -sf /usr/lib/networkmanager/nm-dhcp-helper -pf /var/run/dhclient-wlp3s0.pid -lf /var/lib/NetworkManager/dhclient-1e8b847e-3b65...

Apr 11 15:47:37 IPsoftLappy NetworkManager[300]: <info>  (wlp3s0): Activation: Stage 4 of 5 (IPv6 Configure Timeout) started...
Apr 11 15:47:37 IPsoftLappy NetworkManager[300]: <info>  (wlp3s0): Activation: Stage 4 of 5 (IPv6 Configure Timeout) complete.
Apr 11 15:47:42 IPsoftLappy NetworkManager[300]: <info>  (vnet0): carrier is OFF
Apr 11 15:47:42 IPsoftLappy NetworkManager[300]: <info>  (vnet0): new Tun device (driver: 'unknown' ifindex: 6)
Apr 11 15:47:42 IPsoftLappy NetworkManager[300]: <info>  (vnet0): exported as /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/5
Apr 11 15:47:42 IPsoftLappy NetworkManager[300]: <info>  (virbr0): bridge port vnet0 was attached
Apr 11 15:47:42 IPsoftLappy NetworkManager[300]: <info>  (vnet0): enslaved to virbr0
Apr 11 15:47:42 IPsoftLappy NetworkManager[300]: <error> [1428785262.289728] [devices/nm-device.c:2044] nm_device_generate_connection(): (virbr0): Generated ...nge <2-30>
Apr 11 15:47:42 IPsoftLappy NetworkManager[300]: <info>  (vnet0): link connected
Apr 11 15:47:46 IPsoftLappy NetworkManager[300]: <info>  (virbr0): link connected
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Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,729

Re: nm-applet in xfce not displaying in notifications section

Yes, there are a couple of theads and a bug report about this already.

slackcub

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Registered: 2009-03-14

Posts: 144

Re: nm-applet in xfce not displaying in notifications section

oh, ok. Apparently my google-fu is crap cause I haven't seen any.  Are there any threads with workarounds?

Scimmia

Fellow

Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,729

Re: nm-applet in xfce not displaying in notifications section

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=195863

slackcub

Member

Registered: 2009-03-14

Posts: 144

Re: nm-applet in xfce not displaying in notifications section

Thanks! I'll look it over.