[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#892543: network-manager-gnome: nm-applet in xfce4 notification area is active but has no icon

[Michael Biebl]

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On Sat, 10 Mar 2018 05:13:25 -0500 Arjen Balfoort
<arjenbalfoort at solydxk.com> wrote:
> Package: network-manager-gnome
> Version: 1.8.10-2
> Severity: important
> Tags: a11y
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
>    * What led up to the situation?
>    Setting up Network Manager on Xfce4 (aarch64) resulted in having an invisible Network Manger applet in the notification area.
>    On boot the icon flashes just before disappearing.
>    Left and right actions do function properly (I let the notification area show its borders to make it easier to find the nm-applet).
> 
>    Other icons show correctly in the notification area.
> 
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
>    I found these similar reports but I decided to report this issue because this issue was found on aarch64 and the other reports did not describe exactly this issue (nm-applet is functional but just not showing in the notification area):
>    https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=549541 > 4 Oct 2009, no solution
>    https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=572714 > 5 March 2010, no solution
> 
>    I tested with several styles and icon themes (Gnome, Breeze, etc.) and tried to change icon size for the notification area but the icon still did not show.
>    Although the icon flashes on boot I still checked that nm-applet* icons existed in the icon themes (all svg).
> 
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
>    There was no change.
> 
>    * What outcome did you expect instead?
>    Network Manager applet would show the correct icon in the notification area.
> 
>    If you want I can provide an image for the RPi3.

Unfortunately I can't reproduce your problem on Debian.
Is this problem reproducible on a Debian stretch or sid system?
If you start nm-applet from the console, do you get any error messages?


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