Missing battery applet and network applets!!!

Hi,

I am writing this new post of mine, because most of the users complain that the notification applets go missing in Ubuntu 10.10. This is one aspect that Ubuntu developers should have taken more care of. It so happens that sometimes you don't see the shutdown button, or worse the shutdown button becomes no more clickable. It irks me sometimes as well. Just in case your shutdown button becomes inoperable, run terminal and type "shutdown now" (without quotes), this is as good as "Shutdown" button. As I was speaking about the missing applets on your gnome desktop, there are a few methods to make them re-appear.

Make the "networkmanager" applet re-appear.

Method 1

Launch terminal type “sudo edit /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf” look for something like“managed=false”, change this to “managed=true”  and then save it.

In terminal type “killall nm-system-settings” and then reboot.

Method 2

Right click on Panel>Add to panel>Notification Area (Look at the picture below)

Method 3
Hit Alt+F2, this opens Run Application window. In the Run Application textbox type "nm-applet --sm-disable" (without quotes) and click Run. This ideally should bring the Network Manager in the notification area, if it does not, reboot your machine.

Secondly, to make the battery applet re-appear:

(Look at the image above.)

Right click on Panel>Add to panel>Indicator Applet

To make bluetooth applet re-appear:

Launch terminal and type "sudo bluetoothd -u" (without quotes).

If you have deleted the panel ignorantly, then launch terminal, login as root (sudo su root), and type in these commands one by one:

• gconftool --recursive-unset /apps/panel

• rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps/panel

• pkill gnome-panel 

You should have the panel back. Don't forget to send in your views to nitinclix@gmail.com.

Or leave a comment. Thanks and Cheers!!!