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RonJohn
Asked: 2018-02-04 23:01:35 +0800 CST

Where did Network Manager xfce plugin go?

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After doing apt update and apt dist-upgrade of Xubuntu 16.04, the nm panel plugin seems to have disappeared, both from my panel and the list of plugins.

Note the lack of Network Manager.

(Networking still works, though.)

Note the lack of Network Manager.

Contents of ~/.xsession-errors:

ron@haggis:~$ dir .xsession-errors
-rw------- 1 ron ron 153 2018-02-03 13:38:20 .xsession-errors
ron@haggis:~$ cat .xsession-errors
openConnection: connect: No such file or directory
cannot connect to brltty at :0
upstart: im-config pre-start process (2085) terminated with status 127

The timestamp is from when I last logged in.

Thanks

network-manager xfce xubuntu xfce-panel 16.04

2 Answers

  1. Usually executable is named nm-applet.

    It is installable with

    sudo apt-get install network-manager-gnome

    It should autostart because of /etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop.

    Manual restart is possible with

    killall nm-applet
nm-applet &
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  2. Network manager loads in the "Notification Area" of the panel. If you don't have this as one of the items in a panel, you won't see it.

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