Notification area empty

**green0eggs** · August 3rd, 2011

Hi all.

I'm using 11.04 with the gnome-panel (i.e. I'm using a 'Classic Ubuntu' session).

I've been playing around with the gnome panel desktop (installed docky and a few other things) and I've somehow made the notification area empty... there's definitely one on the panel but there are no icons in it. No nm, power etc.

Also, I can't work out a how to connect to the wireless network here without the notification area thingamy.

Also (2) I can't work out how to turn composting back on (it was on... now it's off). Don't know how it happened. This all occurred at once.

Code:

compiz --replace

does not work.

Any suggestions and help would be super-appreciated.
Cheers

**green0eggs** · August 3rd, 2011

I've just run

Code:

 sudo nm-applet

from the terminal and that makes the applet re-appear but it won't allow me to connect to either wired or wireless network.

Also(#3), when I try and log in with a Unity session I'm told I don't have the hardware to support Compiz which is rubbish because compiz/unity was all working this morning.

Could this be an update thing?

**Frogs Hair** · August 3rd, 2011

You can restore the Gnome Panel applets to defaults by using the following command .

Code:

gconftool --recursive-unset /apps/panel && killall gnome-panel

You can also restore Compiz to defaults in Gnome With the following .

Code:

gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/compiz-1
gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/compizconfig-1
sudo reboot

**green0eggs** · August 3rd, 2011

Hey Frogs, thanks for the help.

Originally Posted by Frogs Hair

Code:

gconftool --recursive-unset /apps/panel && killall gnome-panel

This has returned gnome panel to its original configuration but my notification area is still empty. I also can't get network applet to connect.

Originally Posted by Frogs Hair

You can also restore Compiz to defaults in Gnome With the following .

Code:

gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/compiz-1
gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/compizconfig-1
sudo reboot

Compiz still won't come back.

**Frogs Hair** · August 4th, 2011

See this thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...network+applet
As for Compiz I don't know why it is not working after reseting it .

**green0eggs** · August 5th, 2011

Yeah, I saw that thread.

I've tried most sensible things like

Code:

 sudo killall nm-applet && sudo nm-applet

and

Code:

 sudo service network-manager stop
 sudo service network-manager start

to no avail.

The other suggestions in that thread are just right click and add notification area to panel. I have a notification area in my panel, just with no icons in it.