Re: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared
On Sun 14/04/2024 at 13:29, David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> wrote:
> debian-user:
>
> I have a Dell Latitude E6520:
>
> 2024-04-14 04:28:39 dpchrist@laalaa ~
> $ cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a
> 11.9
> Linux laalaa 5.10.0-28-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.209-2 (2024-01-31)
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> 2024-04-14 04:34:40 dpchrist@laalaa ~
> $ dpkg-query -l xfce4 network-manager network-manager-gnome
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> |
> Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
> |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name Version Architecture Description
> +++-=====================-================-============-=========================================================
> ii network-manager 1.30.6-1+deb11u1 amd64 network
> management framework (daemon and userspace tools)
> ii network-manager-gnome 1.20.0-3 amd64 network
> management framework (GNOME frontend)
> ii xfce4 4.16 all Meta-package
> for
> the Xfce Lightweight Desktop Environment
>
>
> I have used the Xfce panel Network Manager applet for many years.
> Tonight, I noticed that it has disappeared (!).
>
>
> But, the machine is connected to my LAN:
>
> 2024-04-14 05:24:10 root@laalaa ~
> # ifconfig wlp3s0
> wlp3s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> inet 192.168.REDACTED netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast
> 192.168.REDACTED
> inet6 REDACTED prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
> ether REDACTED txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
> RX packets 5786 bytes 2830592 (2.6 MiB)
> RX errors 0 dropped 119 overruns 0 frame 0
> TX packets 3897 bytes 518278 (506.1 KiB)
> TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
>
>
> Looking in the the Xfce panel Application Menu, I am unable to find
> Network Manager.
>
>
> Looking at the Debian WIKI page "NetworkManager":
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkManager
>
>
> It looks like the Network Manager daemon is running:
>
> 2024-04-14 04:32:49 dpchrist@laalaa ~
> $ ps -A | grep -i network
> 828 ? 00:00:00 NetworkManager
>
>
> nm-applet(1) looks like the program I want (?). Attempting to start it
> via a terminal has no effect:
>
> 2024-04-14 04:40:25 dpchrist@laalaa ~
> $ which nm-applet
> /usr/bin/nm-applet
>
> 2024-04-14 05:27:05 dpchrist@laalaa ~
> $ nm-applet
>
> 2024-04-14 05:27:08 dpchrist@laalaa ~
> $
>
>
> RTFM nm-applet(1), it seems the desktop session manager is failing to
> start nm-applet(1) (?):
>
> 2024-04-14 04:58:49 dpchrist@laalaa ~
> $ man nm-applet | cat
> ...
> DESCRIPTION
> nm-applet is a GTK-based GUI applet to monitor network status
> and devices and to start and stop network connections managed
> by NetworkManager. nm-applet is normally started at login by
> the desktop session manager and does not need to be run manu-
> ally. nm-applet conforms to the XDG System Tray specification
> and requires that the desktop environment provide a System Tray
> implementation in which the applet will be embedded.
>
>
> I am unable to find relevant error messages under /var/log.
>
>
> The network Connection Editor can be run via a terminal:
>
> 2024-04-14 04:55:29 dpchrist@laalaa ~
> $ which nm-connection-editor
> /usr/bin/nm-connection-editor
>
> 2024-04-14 04:55:38 dpchrist@laalaa ~
> $ nm-connection-editor
>
>
> Does anyone know why the Network Manager Xfce panel applet is missing,
> how to get it back, and/or how to start it some other way?
>
>
> David
Hi David,
I can't speak for XFCE, but certainly for Mate there was a time when multiple notification area panel widgets were available, not all of which would show everything to be expected. Is that a possibility?
Does
$ ps aux |grep nm-applet
show anything? Before or after
$ nm-applet
?
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