Getting the network applet back in Ubuntu 10.4

published Oct 27, 2010 12:37   by admin ( last modified Oct 27, 2010 12:37 )

Suddenly the little icon that show your network connection status was gone. This was a bit of a problem since I could not configure the computer to connect to a wireless network anymore.

It turns out that the applet behind the missing icon is called nm-applet. Trying to start it with:

nm-applet

did not work since it was reported to be already running. Well, we can do something about that:

killalll nm-applet
nm-applet

and it turned up again