How do I get the Wicd manager to appear in the system tray?

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Apparently this is a limitation of the Unity design. See this bug report.

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Updated on September 18, 2022

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  • keepitsimpleengineer
    keepitsimpleengineer about 1 year

    I have a Lenovo S12 (Intel Atom) on which network Manager does not work.

    I have replaced it with wicd, and accepted work·around.

    With the traditioanl Gnome, the wicd connection would appear in the system tray on the panel.

    It is not showing on Unity (11.10). How do I get this to appear?

  • nilsonneto
    nilsonneto almost 12 years
    I've seen you post similar answers - please make your answer specific to the question - new users simply copying and pasting your answer will break stuff.
  • nilsonneto
    nilsonneto almost 12 years
    ... your comment should be part of the answer! Also - have you tested this in 11.10? Or is this a guess?
  • doug
    doug almost 12 years
    For explaining how to use gsettings for this & similar maybe better to show how to use the get command & then use that result to construct a new set command
  • leoquant
    leoquant almost 12 years
    doug wake up, I explained this....
  • keepitsimpleengineer
    keepitsimpleengineer almost 12 years
    Just so it is clear, this does not work, although it worked in other cases. Changes made using dconf editor are overwritten and the default restored in 11.10.
  • keepitsimpleengineer
    keepitsimpleengineer almost 12 years
    Recently, changes made by dconf editor are not overwritten. However they are ignored.
  • doug
    doug almost 12 years
    Works fine here, both with unity(3d) & unity-2d from the mentioned team unity ppa. Maybe you should note which unity you're using, what is in the whitelist, ect.