Thursday, February 4, 2016

Why Network Manager is not available to new user accounts in 16.04? Why nm-applet does not start for new users?

Network Manager (nm-applet) is not available in the panel for new user accounts, and manually running nm-applet does not start the network manager.


I needed to create 2 accounts for different users, and gave them administrator level and also permission to create and connect to networks.
But nm-applet does not autostart and do not launches running from the terminal. It simply won't say anything after running nm-applet. There's no simple way to make it run.


I followed the workarounds for previous releases, such:



  • making sure that "indicator plugin" is active on the panel,

  • and, in Application Autostart tab of "session and startup"

    • "network" is configured to autostart,

    • "Indicator Application" are configured to not autostart,

    • added nm-applet command for it to autostart.



As a system administrator I can't figure out what else should a user do to access networking.


Network Manager is running for the default (1000) user. (BTW default user is connecting to WI-FI without specific permission to do it.)
The new users accounts were given users ID below 1000 for they to not appear on login window.


NOTE: We are running "ubuntu desktop" sessions, after installing "ubuntu studio" packages, on a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. New users are being created on "users and gropus" option in the System category of the Whisker menu.

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