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esotechnica

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[SOLVED] Can't get nm-applet to appear in system tray

Something weird has happened with my Arch desktop but I have no idea how it happened.  After messing up my KDE taskbar, I deleted and re-added the system tray.  But now the network manager applet (nm-applet) no longer appears in the system tray.  In fact, the nm-applet appears to be deleted from my system!  This alone was a concern, how could it be there one moment and gone the next?  So I reinstalled the network-manager-applet package.  Then manually started nm-applet and it appears again in my tray.

But now I can't get it to start automatically in the system tray when I log in.  Any ideas why it is not doing this automatically?  And why this just might have mysteriously disappeared in the fist place?  I don't remember having to do anything special when I set it up first time, it just worked.

Thanks.

Last edited by esotechnica (2025-04-20 10:56:20)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get nm-applet to appear in system tray

https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x8 … er-applet/ ships /etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop
If you've not masked that and https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE#Autostart wasn't broken (for at least the XDG autostart), is there any indication that the process is actually autostarted but then fails/crashes?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Core_d … _core_dump

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Scimmia

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get nm-applet to appear in system tray

With KDE, you'd typically be using plasma-nm, not nm-applet.

esotechnica

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get nm-applet to appear in system tray

Ah yes, you're correct.  plasma-nm was the one I was wanting.  Strangely, that package was also uninstalled.  Installing it fixed it.

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get nm-applet to appear in system tray

Strangely, that package was also uninstalled.

Because you removed it? Check your pacman log.

Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
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esotechnica

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get nm-applet to appear in system tray

Sorry for the late reply.  I checked the logs and the only entries for the plasma-nm and network-manager-applet packages were when I added them just recently.  It's like they've never been installed.  But there was definitely an applet in the tray previously.  Maybe I was using something else, but I have no idea what.  I cannot remember how I originally set it up.

Thanks for your help.