Network manager applet is gone on whisker menu and panel

almahdi · 2021-10-21 23:16:57

Not really remeber what've done but now on Arch, network manager applet is gone in all place: whisker menu and panel.
The only remain is as stated by pacman

$ sudo pacman -Qe | grep -ni network

252:network-manager-applet 1.24.0-1
253:networkmanager 1.32.12-1
254:networkmanager-openconnect 1.2.7dev+65+gca4187c-1
255:networkmanager-openvpn 1.8.16-1
256:networkmanager-pptp 1.2.9dev+10+gb41b0d0-4
257:networkmanager-vpnc 1.2.7dev+20+gdca3aea-2

Qe option : list all installed app packages

How to fix it as well as it was working fine ?

Last edited by almahdi (2021-10-21 23:18:26)

ToZ · 2021-10-21 23:51:04

Is "nm-applet" running?

ps -ef | grep nm-applet

If it is, which panel plugins do you have added to the panel?

xfconf-query -c xfce4-panel -lv | grep '^/plugins'

(you need to have a systray plugin added to the panel for it to display).

almahdi · 2021-10-22 04:32:57

luckily those working well

$ sudo ps -ef | grep nm-applet
budi        1878    1871  0 11:26 pts/0    00:00:00 grep nm-applet


$ sudo xfconf-query -c xfce4-panel -lv | grep '^/plugins'
/plugins/plugin-1                            showdesktop
/plugins/plugin-2                            actions
/plugins/plugin-2/appearance                 0
/plugins/plugin-2/invert-orientation         false
/plugins/plugin-2/items                      <<UNSUPPORTED>>
/plugins/plugin-3                            tasklist
/plugins/plugin-3/grouping                   1
/plugins/plugin-4                            pager
/plugins/plugin-5                            clock
/plugins/plugin-6                            systray
/plugins/plugin-6/names-visible              <<UNSUPPORTED>>
/plugins/plugin-6/show-frame                 false
/plugins/plugin-7                            separator
/plugins/plugin-7/expand                     true
/plugins/plugin-7/style                      0
/plugins/plugin-8                            whiskermenu
/plugins/plugin-9                            pulseaudio
/plugins/plugin-9/enable-keyboard-shortcuts  true

ToZ · 2021-10-22 10:34:08

Why are you running those commands with sudo? They shouldn't be run with sudo.

nm-applet isn't running, that's why. Try starting it manually:

nm-applet

It can also be auto-started by checking the "Network" item in Settings Manager > Session and Startup > Application Autostart.

almahdi · 2021-10-22 17:13:15

Oops, Gosh how ignorant I'm

$ nm-applet

(nm-applet:11828): libnotify-WARNING **: 00:02:23.409: Failed to connect to proxy

(nm-applet:11828): nm-applet-WARNING **: 00:02:23.412: Failed to show notification: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Notifications was not provided by any .service files

Look let it go straight
It went wrong as Manjaro run smoothly then another Arch non-systemd is added installed, i.e. Artix and these both share the same XFCE setting under $HOME

Any clearer idea to understand what actually bad thing on this, and brighter thought on how to solve these all to working well together ?

ToZ · 2021-10-22 18:07:34

Did you install xfce4-notifyd? Is it running?

ps -ef | grep notif

almahdi · 2021-10-23 05:12:34

budi        1141    1100  0 Okt22 ?        00:00:01 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-2.0 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/libsystray.so 6 14680077 systray Status Tray Plugin Provides status notifier items (application indicators) and legacy systray items
budi       18318   18311  0 12:11 pts/0    00:00:00 grep notif

ToZ · 2021-10-23 11:11:19

Install the xfce4-notifyd package and log out and back in again. You should then see a /usr/lib/xfce4/notifyd/xfce4-notifyd process running. This will provide the notification service that nm-applet is complaining about.

almahdi · 2021-10-23 14:49:19

Working

So back above, "any brighter thought on how to solve these all to working well together ?"

So the need is nm and nm-applet etc are executed in one systemd OS ie. Manjaro and not in non systemd ie. Artix
the most viable mean is to link the file for nm setting in ~/.cnfig/xfce....(what I'm asking now) to place in / dir.
so any configuration in each still running on its own side by side has no harm each other though by different settings

Last edited by almahdi (2021-10-23 17:29:59)

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Network manager applet is gone on whisker menu and panel

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