{"id":52,"date":"2018-10-21T15:57:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T15:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/?p=52"},"modified":"2018-10-21T15:57:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T15:57:06","slug":"networkmanager-and-nm-applet-not-working-properly-with-xfce4-window-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"NetworkManager and nm-applet not working properly with xfce4 window manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Symptom<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When running xfce4, I found that in the notifications area, the nm-applet (the applet that shows the network status) would sometimes take a while to arrive, and sometimes it would hang and not allow me to view or change network.<\/p>\n<p>When I started xfce4-notifyd-config I noticed that the xfce4-notifyd daemon was not running.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Solution<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It turned out that I had some kde utilities installed, and one of these, the org.kde.plasma.Notifications.service, was conflicting with the org.xfce.xfce4-notifyd.Notifications.service. Both notification services failed.<\/p>\n<p>To solve the problem, simply remove \/usr\/share\/dbus-1\/services\/org.kde.plasma.Notifications.service (ensuring first that \/usr\/share\/dbus-1\/services\/org.xfce.xfce4-notifyd.Notifications.service exists).<\/p>\n<p>Now log out and log in again and you should find that the nm-applet works and that when you start xfce4-notifyd-config, you don&#8217;t get the message that the daemon has not started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Symptom When running xfce4, I found that in the notifications area, the nm-applet (the applet that shows the network status) would sometimes take a while to arrive, and sometimes it would hang and not allow me to view or change network. When I started xfce4-notifyd-config I noticed that the xfce4-notifyd daemon was not running. Solution &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/?p=52\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NetworkManager and nm-applet not working properly with xfce4 window manager&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}