Network status indicator does not show in the top panel on Budgie, nor is it available as a widget

mareklachbc · December 24, 2019, 5:22pm

The only way to connect to WiFi on the Budgie Endeavour desktop is by going to ‘Settings’, and putting in the password under ‘Security’ when a wifi network is discovered, but the status indicator for network connection is completely missing from the top bar at the moment, and there is no automatic prompt to enter the wifi password, so it isn’t easy to figure out whether a user is connected to the internet, or not.

ricklinux · December 24, 2019, 6:05pm

Hello @mareklachbc
I think you need to just install network-manager-applet. Then log out and back in.

yay -S network-manager-applet

mareklachbc · December 24, 2019, 7:58pm

Oh! Right. Forgot about that. It’d probably ship by default tho…

ricklinux · December 24, 2019, 7:59pm

I installed it on virtual and got it working. So give it a try.

joekamprad · January 17, 2020, 11:38am

just added it to be installed per default for budgie:

github.com

endeavouros-team/install-scripts/blob/6854d3d85d157f44eb578aac0453fa5a65798eed/netinstall.yaml#L240


  description: "Budgie - I Tawt I Taw A Purdy Desktop"
  hidden: false
  selected: false
  critical: false
  packages:
    - budgie-desktop
    - gnome
    - lightdm
    - lightdm-gtk-greeter
    - lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings
    - network-manager-applet
    - gnome-software-packagekit-plugin
    - gnome-packagekit
    - fwupd
- name: "Deepin-Desktop"
  description: "Deepin Desktop - beautiful, easy to use, safe and reliable. "
  hidden: false
  selected: false
  critical: false
  packages:
    - deepin

ricklinux · December 25, 2019, 3:04am

Thanks @joekamprad
I just installed it again and the network icon is there. I wanted to ask what do i need to install to have the setting in the raven panel for desktop folders. I can’t figure it out. Solus has this installed so the Budgie desktop settings allow folders on the desktop. I know it’s something to do with Gnome?

JR29 · December 25, 2019, 3:33am

it’s an extension of gnome

ricklinux · December 25, 2019, 3:39am

I can’t figure out which?

JR29 · December 25, 2019, 3:44am

gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons 19.10.2-1

JR29 · December 25, 2019, 3:50am

https://youtu.be/FPkL-RfJYU4 it was this video that gave me the idea of looking on pamac

Bryanpwo · December 25, 2019, 9:04am

Welcome on the forum amd again thank you for your donation and for reporting this, Budgie isn’t the daily driver of either of us, so your feedback helps us improve it. As you can read @joekamprad fixed it already.