How to display network manager icon on the Xfce panel?

network-manager icons xfce

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Solution 1

Make sure you have both Notification Area and Indicator Plugin on your panel.

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Solution 2

For the benefit of further readers having the same problem I would like to note that I managed to get the indicators to show up in the xfce4 indicator area without using the indicator plugin.

screenshot showing the indicator and startup sequence

I fiddled with the settings, but I think the key point was to deactivate the gnome indicators that I marked with red in the screen shot. I reckon these are gnomish programs that might indeed need the indicator-plugin. As can be seen at the top right of the screen shot, at least the network manager and the power indicator appear. Whether there is something special for bluetooth in xfce4, I don't know.

Solution 3

Test this:

Edit /etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop:

sudo su 
nano /etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop

Go down to the Exec line.

Change the entry:

nm-applet
to 
dbus-launch nm-applet

Save the file -- Control + O

Close nano -- Control + X

Reboot.

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Devin

Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

Devin over 1 year

I installed Xfce in Ubuntu 14.04, but the network manager icon disappeared. When I run sudo nm-applet, the icon shows. Not only the network manager but also the power manager and fcitx icon disappeared. fcitx is a Chinese input method.
- mreq almost 10 years
  
  Do you have both Notification Area and Indicator Plugin on your panel? s.mreq.eu/1409307498.png
- Devin almost 10 years
  
  Thank you very muck,when I add Indicator Plugin on my panel,All icons appear,both fcitxand xfce4-power-manager. I want xfce4-power-manager shows in Notification Area actually, but it does not matter.
Devin almost 10 years

Thank you for your reply,the network manager icon has appeared,but the fcitx icon is not,I try to add dbus-launch to /etc/xdg/autostart/fcitx-autostart.desktop,but It does not work.Then i execute fcitx-autostart,it prompts that it is already running，but when I execute the sudo xfce4-power-manager,the power manager icon appear.
Devin almost 10 years

This is my session and startupsetting drive.google.com/file/d/0BxJnwGgaIrvZbXBPelB6UF9iajg/… . I guess these problems may be related to session and startup
Devin almost 10 years

when I add Indicator Plugin on my panel,All icons appear,both fcitxand xfce4-power-manager,thank you again
gerlos over 9 years

This solves the problem for me. I disabled those applications from automatic start, and network icon appeared again. I even disinstalled the indicator plugin, since I don't need it.
Karussell about 9 years

Nice, this made all other indicators pop up in the xfce4-indicator-area too!
Andrea Borga almost 9 years

worked also for me with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Xfce 4.12. Thanks for the tip! I also have to add that the idea of adding the xfce4-indicator-plugin is not good: you get further unity crap in the sleek minimal xfce bar.
asgs over 6 years

Thanks! Adding Notification Area applet to the panel started showing the Network Indicator. I, however, didn't need to add Indicator plugin nor did it help anyway
Adrian Keister over 5 years

This doesn't work on Linux Mint Xfce 19. Any ideas?
Adrian Keister over 5 years

Found out the system theme was just making it difficult to see. Switched to Mint-Y, and I could see it just fine.
Tcll almost 5 years

For me I didn't have to restart, just open a terminal, run the command, then close the terminal. After editing the launcher, the applet auto-restarts once the terminal is closed. ;)