nm-applet removed from notification area

[Bytesource]

Hi all,

After upgrading to Kubuntu 10.10 the icon for the gnome-network-manager (which I had installed instead of the former knetworkmanager) does not show up.

Although I can connect to the Internet, I am not able to set up my VPN without an icon showing up.

Checking at the terminal indicates that there is indeed something wrong here:

sovonet@sovonet:~$ nm-applet
** Message: applet now removed from the notification area
** (nm-applet:3027): DEBUG: old state indicates that this was not a disconnect 0

** (nm-applet:3027): WARNING **: Fallback icon 'gtk-dialog-error' missing: (0) Icon 'gtk-dialog-error' not present in theme
**
ERROR:applet.c:2932:nma_icons_reload: assertion failed: (applet->fallback_icon)
Aborted

gnome-icon-theme is installed on my computer.

Does anybody know what this problem is all about and how to solve it?

Stefan

[Bytesource]

Update:

I managed to to get the nm-applet icon appear in the system tray following this workaround:

1) Select a Gnome icon theme
System Settings --> Application Appearance --> Icons: select Gnome

2) In terminal type

nm-applet

Now the nm-applet appears in the system tray, but using Gnome icons in Kubuntu is rather ugly.

There my question: Is there a way to selectively copy the icons used by nm-applet to the Oxygen icon collection?


Stefan

[Bytesource]

I finally found a more pleasant workaround that works for me:
http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-b...sg2566236.html

Make sure to log in as root before following the commands listed in the above link:

sudo su

Stefan

[ZeroGodForce]

I'm having the same problem (except I just installed 10.10 clean), but I have neither the gnome-icon-theme nor the tango-icon-theme installed and as far as I've tried, I can't even find them let alone install them. So unless I'm missing a trick (which is entirely possible) I can't even execute the workarounds. Could one of you possibly help me out cause this is driving me absolutely freaking mental! Seriously I am this close to giving that my Linux partition back to Wndows!

Thanks.

[Bytesource]

You can install the Tango icon theme by copying the following command into the terminal (Konsole on Kubuntu):

sudo apt-get install tango-icon-theme

Best regards,

Stefan

[nortexoid]

I finally found a more pleasant workaround that works for me:
http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-b...sg2566236.html

Make sure to log in as root before following the commands listed in the above link:

sudo su

Stefan

Thanks! I had found that bug report, commented there, but forgot to subscribe so I didn't get the workarounds. Thought I would do a search again and found this thread. Fantastic.

[ZeroGodForce]

Thanks Stefan, and everyone else; that one was really driving me nuts.

Now that its working I can't believe how much better is than the KDE network manager. Don't get me wrong, I've got much respect for KDE's developers but I just don't understand why it's so bad when the Gnome one is so good.