Re: nm-applet not running

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2015-05-14 at 10:20 +0200, jean-christophe manciot wrote:
> Hello guys,
> I have compiled and installed NetworkManager from the git sources on Ubuntu
> Server 15.04.
> I can see NetworkManager is running but not nm-applet.
> What should be done?

nm-applet is in a separate git repository than NetworkManager itself,
since the core daemon is desktop agnostic.  The applet's git repo is at
https://git.gnome.org/browse/network-manager-applet .

nm-applet is normally run automatically at login by your session
manager.  You can start it manually if you'd like (just run nm-applet)
but it needs a "notification area" to display itself in.

I'm not sure if there's still a notification area in ubuntu 15.04 since
they have moved to indicators.  Only nm-applet git master has support
for indicators, and to build that support you need a couple more
development libraries (libappindicator) and you also must pass
--with-appindicator when configuring/autogen-ing the applet.  Once
that's done, you can still run it manually (or via your session manager
at login) and it should pop into the normal indicator area in the
top-right.

Dan