I just upgraded from Ubuntu MATE 14.10 to 15.04. After the upgrade, the network manager icon, which I had in the notification area until then, was gone. How can I restore it?
Ubuntu – Network applet missing from notification area after upgrading to Ubuntu MATE 15.04
15.04mate
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The problem was that I removed the notification area. This includes the volume indicator, the network applet and the battery status. The solution is simple:
Add the notification area to your panel. You do so by right-clicking on the panel, "Add to Panel..." and choosing Notification Area:
This gives you the network manager applet (nm-applet), the sound / volume chooser and the battery indicator.
The easiest way to get Ubuntu Mate the way you were talking about would probably just download it from https://ubuntu-mate.org/ and install it.
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The applet which manages this icon is called
nm-applet.In my case, I had an autostart entry for it in
~/.config/autostart/nm-applet.desktop, which I had created on Ubuntu MATE 14.10. (If you don't, copynm-applet.desktopover from/etc/xdg/autostart/.)After commenting out the following two lines:
and logging out and back in, the applet was there again.
Note: if you use other desktop environments aside from MATE, you may need to re-enable
AutostartConditionand tweak it according to your needs.Note 2: this no longer seems to work on 18.04.