Update : installing lxsession0.4.9.2 from the trusty-proposed repositories fixes the issue. nm-applet does show in the panel after I removed it from Prefs > Default Applications for LXSession > Autostart tab after a reboot.
Procedure to enable the trusty-proposed repos : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed
Create /etc/apt/preferences and include :
Code:
Package: *
Pin: release a=trusty-proposed
Pin-Priority: 400
Code:
sudo apt-get update
bapoumba@SonyBlue:/etc/apt$ sudo apt-get install lxsession/trusty-proposed
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Selected version '0.4.9.2+git20140410-0ubuntu1.1' (Ubuntu:14.04/trusty-proposed [i386]) for 'lxsession'
Suggested packages:
lxde-common
The following packages will be upgraded:
lxsession
1 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 5 not to upgrade.
Need to get 86,9 kB of archives.
After this operation, 6 144 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-proposed/universe lxsession i386 0.4.9.2+git20140410-0ubuntu1.1 [86,9 kB]
Fetched 86,9 kB in 0s (258 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 189780 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../lxsession_0.4.9.2+git20140410-0ubuntu1.1_i386.deb ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/openbox-session to provide /usr/bin/x-session-manager (x-session-manager) in auto mode
Unpacking lxsession (0.4.9.2+git20140410-0ubuntu1.1) over (0.4.9.2+git20140410-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up lxsession (0.4.9.2+git20140410-0ubuntu1.1) ...
update-alternatives: renaming x-session-manager.1.gz slave link from /usr/share/man/man1/x-session-manager.1.gz to /usr/share/man/man1/lxsession-manager.1.gz
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/lxsession to provide /usr/bin/x-session-manager (x-session-manager) in auto mode
update-alternatives: warning: skip creation of /usr/share/man/man1/lxsession-manager.1.gz because associated file /usr/share/man/man1/lxsession.1.gz (of link group x-session-manager) doesn't exist
Code:
apt-cache policy lxsession
lxsession:
Installed: 0.4.9.2+git20140410-0ubuntu1.1
Candidate: 0.4.9.2+git20140410-0ubuntu1.1
Version table:
*** 0.4.9.2+git20140410-0ubuntu1.1 0
400 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-proposed/universe i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
0.4.9.2+git20140410-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe i386 Packages
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