Bug 410684

Summary:	WiFi icon dissapears from System Tray
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Xeno Idaltu <xenoidaltu>
Component:	System Tray widget	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	major	CC:	kde, nate, xenoidaltu
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.12.4
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Xeno Idaltu 2019-08-07 06:34:30 UTC

I've had this problem before when using Manjaro KDE. I'm not sure if it's a kernel problem or if it's a KDE problem. 

The problem happens whenever I disable WiFi connection or if I enable Airplane Mode from the System Tray. The only way to fix this issue is by restarting the Network Manager via SystemD.


Linux/KDE Plasma: Kubuntu 18.04 LTS
KDE Plasma Version: 5.12.8
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.44.0
Qt Version: 5.9.5

Comment 1 Kai Uwe Broulik 2019-08-07 10:07:41 UTC

Can you check if NetworkManager is still running? What does nmcli d and nmcli c show?

Comment 2 Xeno Idaltu 2019-08-11 11:14:35 UTC

(In reply to Kai Uwe Broulik from comment #1)
> Can you check if NetworkManager is still running? What does nmcli d and
> nmcli c show?

1) 
$ nmicli c (before)
NAME      UUID             TYPE      DEVICE 
MyWiFi    random numbers   wifi      wlp3s0 

$ nmicli c (after)
NAME      UUID             TYPE      DEVICE 
MyWiFi    random numbers   wifi      -- 



2) 
$ nmcli d (before)
DEVICE  TYPE      STATE        CONNECTION       
wlp3s0  wifi      connected    MyWiFi 
enp5s0  ethernet  unavailable  --               
lo      loopback  unmanaged    --   

$ nmcli d (after)
DEVICE  TYPE      STATE        CONNECTION 
enp5s0  ethernet  unavailable  --         
wlp3s0  wifi      unavailable  --         
lo      loopback  unmanaged    --  



3) I recently asked other kde users and they claimed to have the same problem. I've been having this problem since 2016 and reported it. I barely disable my internet connection and hence didn't know it was still an issue.

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2019-11-14 03:21:12 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 400535 ***