[lubuntu-users] How to get back the wifi icon in taskbar (Wilbert Heeringa)

Wilbert Heeringa wjheeringa at gmail.com
Thu Jul 2 09:41:02 UTC 2020


Hi Fritz,

Thanks for your help.

Ranger5 advised me to run:

nm-tray applet show

After getting back the Status Notifier Plugin I ran this.

Then I logged out and logged in and it was solved.

--Wilbert




Op di 30 jun. 2020 om 16:19 schreef Fritz Hudnut <este.el.paz at gmail.com>:

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>> Dear all,
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>> I am using Lubuntu 20.04 LTS.
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>> I accidentally lost the wifi icon in the taskbar in the bottom right. I
>> need it since I have to switch wifi connections (since my printer is
>> connected via wifi).
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>> I tried:
>> right-click taskbar
>> Choose ‘Configure Panel’
>> Click ‘Widgets’
>> Click on +
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>> Then I don’t know what to do, there is nothing in the list that seems to
>> include the wifi icon. There is a ‘Network monitor’, but that’s something
>> else, it does not give me a list of wifi connections which I can choose
>> from.
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>> Via the Start button you can choose >Preferences >Advanced Network
>> Configuration, but it does not solve the problem either.
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>> Does anybody know a solution?
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> @Wilbert:
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> Did you try a basic apt update/upgrade??  I recall that over the years the
> wifi applet would disappear, or sometimes show up as two applets . . .
> problem seems to come and go, and often the next update/upgrade will
> resolve the problem, or a couple of them?  Otherwise in terms of how to go
> into the console and fix the problem . . . I don't know.
>
> F
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