failed to start nm-applet

Hi,

I upgraded my old version of NM(svnr2984) to 0.7.1 version on my ARM platform.

However I am facing couple of issues -

1. nm-applet does not start on its own during system boot-up. NetworkManager runs successfully.

2. When I try to run "nm-applet --sm-disable" on console, I got "(nm-applet:1201): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:"

"export DISPLAY=':0.0'" helped me got rid of this problem and nm-applet ran fine thereafter.

However I can not export the above from any init script that runs before "K28NetworkManager".

Meaning export does not work during boot-up init scripts.

How can I successfully run nm-applet without doing an "export"?

Could anybody share some pointers on this?

Thanks for your time.

Regards,

Saurav