Accessing Open VPN Network Manager GUI from Mate Desktop?

[Al Puzzuoli]

Hello,

Using Orca with Ubuntu Mate 16.10. I am trying to configure a VPN. I 
have installed openvpn, and network-manager-openvpn-gnome. now, there is 
supposed to be a system tray icon  I can use to configure my VPN; 
However unless I'm missing something, I don't see any way to access 
system tray icons via the keyboard. Is there a way to access these 
icons? If not, is there any way to bring up the vPN Network Manager GUI 
directly by running a command?  i'm sure I could configure the VPN by 
using the openvpn command line utility, but I'd like to get the GUI 
working as well if at all possible.

Thanks,


Al