Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Getting disappeared nm-applet back in Ubuntu 10

I just installed a ubuntu 10.04 by cable network. While I was trying to activate my wireless network, I was disappointed that there's no nm-applet in the notification area, which is used to manage the network connections.

I tried to start nm-applet in the console, and was soon told that there's already a nm-applet instance running. Why it's not shown in the notification area while it's running? A thread shown the answer: it's caused by the d-bus permissions.

None-root user is denied to run the /etc/dbus-1/system.d/nm-applet.conf. So what I do is just enable it by editing the file.

sudo vi /etc/dbus-1/system.d/nm-applet.conf
The best way is copy&paste, I copied the section between and the closed , and pasted these lines just after the previous , and change "root" to "roger" (this is my current logged in username)

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