Where did Network Manager xfce plugin go?

Question

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.)

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

Solution

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 &

Comments

[RonJohn]

Thanks. The package was already installed, but not running, even though /etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop exists, and the relevant item is selected in Session and Startup. Solution was nm-applet &.

[RonJohn]

Where should/can I look to see why nm-app didn't autostart?

[N0rbert]

Check ~/.xsession-errors.

[RonJohn]

I added the details to the bottom of the question.