Re: nm-applet running only in root session

[Robert Carnecky <robert dbservice com>]

OK, I found it!  I didn't add 'Notification area' applet to my Gnome
panel. Notification area is the place where Network Manager's nm-applet
shows its' icon.

Robert



Dan Williams wrote:
> 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
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