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xfce4-panel package

Network manager icon appears twice on start up, from time to time

Bug #1685502 reported by Victor Marin on 2017-04-22

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1761606: Two Wi-Fi network applets appear after logging back into live-usb Lubuntu 18.04 session.. Edit Remove

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This bug affects 21 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	xfce4-panel (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

In Xubuntu 17.04, network manager icon appears twice on start up, from time to time. I attach you an screenshot.

Also happens in Ubuntu MATE 17.04.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
Package: xfce4-panel 4.12.1-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-19.21-generic 4.10.8
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-19-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sat Apr 22 14:48:14 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-04-19 (2 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
SourcePackage: xfce4-panel
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Victor Marin (vic64) wrote on 2017-04-22:

Captura de pantalla_2017-04-22_13-20-45.png Edit (1.2 MiB, image/png)
Dependencies.txt Edit (6.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
JournalErrors.txt Edit (16.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (958 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (112 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2017-05-01:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in xfce4-panel (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Adrian (thehim) wrote on 2017-12-25:

This bug has remained over the years. The problem is that both the "Notification area" and "Indicator plugin" panel items contain their own copy of the Network icon. Only the latter shows a mouse hover effect for it, so I assume it's the correct/preferable place to contain it.

A quick-fix is to remove both panel items, re-adding the Notification area first. As the Indicator plugin gets added, some check appears to happen which then removes the duplicate Network icon from the Notification area.

Unfortunately this fix doesn't last forever, and the logic is clearly fragile (it should be triggered under more conditions, e.g. on each startup.

I saw another suggestion about "clearing saved sessions" but I don't use sessions and it had no effect for me.

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Willem Hobers (whobers) wrote on 2018-03-08:

I'm also seeing this on Xubuntu 18.04, which I am testing. Should I report this here, or elsewhere? Please advice.

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Kev Bowring (flocculant) wrote on 2018-03-08:

@whobers - http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/387/builds

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Adrian (thehim) wrote on 2018-03-17:

@whobers. Please mark at the top that this bug affects you too, so its urgency rating goes up. I've had this reliably happen on all machines I used Xubuntu on, and yet it never got any attention by the developers.

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Adrian (thehim) wrote on 2018-04-04:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/938380
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/1652454
https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/17-04-nm-applet-works-fine-but-shows-2-icons-in-the-system-tray/12020/22
https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-panel/issues/539

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Thulium Equasman (equasman-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2018-05-28:

Restarting the Xfce Panel (xfce4-panel --restart) solves the problem for me. Two netowrk manager applet icons don't appear in the panel anymore.

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Public → Public Security

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Prahlad Yeri (prahladyeri) wrote on 2018-09-13:

Its high time this bug needs to be fixed! 18.04 is the LTS branch which is supposed to be rock solid, how can this usability bug be entertained still now even after installing the latest security updates of bionic?

For what its worth, here is a quick fix:

xfce4-panel -r