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Mina Michael
Asked: 2014-09-25 09:33:44 +0800 CST

How to restart the network manager applet

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Sometimes my network manager indicator (applet) shows as if I'm not connected to wifi (no bars) and when I right click it it says "networking disabled" although I am connected to the internet. Maybe it's a bug or something.

Running sudo service network-manager restart fixes this applet. It restarts the whole network. Does anyone know a simple way to restart just the applet? (nm-applet)

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3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You can restart nm-applet with this command from terminal:

    killall nm-applet; nohup nm-applet &

    or by restarting the network-manager service (which will restart nm-applet):

    sudo systemctl restart network-manager

    or

    sudo service network-manager restart

    Here is a YouTube video explaining the answer.

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  2. If you have gnome, restarting the shell (Alt-F2, r, Return) might do it.

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  3. None of the accepted answer's suggestions worked for me in Ubuntu 16.04.5, but this did:

    sudo killall -9 nm-applet && nm-applet &

    The main difference seems to be sudo before killall.

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