Lubuntu 14.04: The Network Manager icon doesn't show up by default for some users by default. Until the Lubuntu developers fix this, here's how to get the Network Manager icon back.
To fix the Network Manager not showing up on the panel issue, from the Lubuntu menu select Preferences > Default applications for LXSession, then click on the Autostart tab and under "Manual autostarted applications" type "nm-applet", then click the "+ Add" button on the left:
Now log out, log back in and you should see the Network Manager icon on the panel:
Note that if you ran nm-applet with "sudo", like it was suggested in some other places, nm-applet may no longer start without sudo (because sudo changes some permissions or maybe something else is causing this for some users?) and I'm not sure how to fix that.
The solution in this article (without sudo) was tested and is working on my netbook as well as on a fresh Lubuntu 14.04 installation in VirtualBox.
The solution in this article (without sudo) was tested and is working on my netbook as well as on a fresh Lubuntu 14.04 installation in VirtualBox.
somewhat via lffl.org