Wifi icon is not displayed

Question

My networking status is on which is shown in first figure But the Networking icon i.e. the wifi icon is missing. How do I bring it back?

Solution 1

Run this command from the terminal, just copy and paste for accuracy.

sudo apt-get install --reinstall network-manager network-manager-gnome

This should work if you uninstalled the icon by mistake.

Solution 2

It could be very well possible that your nm-applet application has been killed or crashed.

Try running this command in a terminal:

nohup nm-applet &

if you don't want nohup.out file, you can use

nohup nm-applet > /dev/null &

Solution 3

this fixed it for me...

sudo apt-get install indicator-applet-complete

Comments

[James]

YESS!!! I've tried sooo many 'fixes' and this one finally did the trick!! FYI I also needed to reboot after this. THANK YOU!

[rayryeng]

This was the one that worked for me. I did not have an Internet connection and was disconnected from my router, so I could not use apt-get to reinstall the network manager. Thanks a lot!

[spharish]

When I try the cmd, I get the below error. Can someone help in resolving please. The following packages have unmet dependencies: network-manager-gnome : Depends: libnm-gtk0 (= 0.9.8.8-0ubuntu4) but 0.9.8.8-0ubuntu4.5 is to be installed