Re: nm-applet running only in root session

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 01:02 +0200, Robert Carnecky wrote:
> I installed Network Manager on my gentoo box. nm-applet is visible on my
> gnome panel only when the session is running as root. Under regular user
> I get error message
> 
> (nm-applet:7071): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_tooltips_set_tip: assertion
> `widget != NULL' failed
> 
> (nm-applet:7071): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_image_set_from_pixbuf: assertion
> `GTK_IS_IMAGE (image)' failed
> 
> and applet does not appear in panel. Any idea?

Make sure you do something like:

gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/hicolor

after you 'make install'.  That updates the GTK icon theme caches and
allows the applet to find its icons.  Normally this should be done by
the distro package.

Dan