Restoring nm-applet to 10.04 indicator applet

[Darukur]

Hi all, in my case the missing nm-applet was fixed by calling:
sudo nm-connection-editor

And removing the wifi connections on the root user.
It seems that nm-applet has not enough permissions in some point trying to open the open the connection edited with root.

[jringoot]

Alas, none of the above helped.

It is linked to the username:
Changing the userid doesn't help, changing the username (= deleting the user and creating a user with the same userid but a different name) does make the icon reappear.

It is not linked to anything in the users homedir, since I removed it and let it create with the pam.d mkhomedir module.

I suspect something in a binary database in /etc or /var contains this and it is not removed by a apt-get purge network-manager.

It doesn't help to modify or even add as new entry to startup apps in gnome this nm-applet.

For a workaround I have added an icon in the gnome-panel that launches nm-applet.

maybe a script that does "nohup nm-applet &" when the user logs in would be even a better workaround.

Another workaround would be changing the users login name, that worked too, tested.