The NetworkManager icon is missing from my XFCE desktop (I believe it disappeared when I upgraded to FC41). However, it appears when I create a new user account on my PC. So it must be my main login config. I am reluctant to delete the entire ~/.config folder since I am not sure that will help. Any ideas what configuration in my /home login dir may be responsible? None of the filenames under ~/.config seem related. I did try restarting NetworkManager, xfcepanel, etc. Nothing I tried helps. Tia…
You can usually enable that from Settings and Startup which you start from the Settings Manager.
Villy - Tx for the reply. Under “Session and Startup”, I do have the “Network (Manage your network connections)” Program enabled. (NetworkManager is running perfectly fine. Only the icon is missing.) I see no meaningful (to me anyway) differences in this dialog between my main login and the guest login I created (where the NM icon appears fine). I was hoping there was a file under ~/.config that I could delete but I cannot identify what it might be. Maybe under .cache? Given that the icon appears in the context of a newly created user account, it’s clearly my main login config that is at issue (somehow). But I cannot figure it out and am reluctant to blow away all of ~/.config and ~/.cache. Sigh…
I’m not a XFCE user, but does running update-desktop-database help? If not, maybe cp /usr/share/applications/nm-applet.desktop ~/.local/share/applications && update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications would workaround the problem? I’m just guessing. 
HTH.
FWIW: Excerpted from wiki.archlinux.org – NetworkManager – Front-ends:
3. Front-ends
To provide integration with a desktop environment, most users will want to install an applet. This not only provides easy access to network selection and configuration, but also provides the agent necessary for securely storing secrets. Various desktop environments have their own applet; otherwise, you can use #nm-applet.
Edit: It looks like nm-applet is for the system tray icon? There might also be a nm-connection-editor.desktop file under /usr/share/applications which might be what you are really looking for. I guess I would try running the command from the Exec= line in those files and see which one starts what you are looking for.
Tried what you mentioned …to no avail. I even tried removing the entries:
NoDisplay=true
NotShownIn=KDE,GNOME
also to no avail. I did notice an entry:
Icon=nm-device-wireless
I do not see an icon by that name. I wonder…
But I also do not see an “empty space” in the upper status bar where the icon used to appear which is what I’d think would have happened.
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Some problem with your theme maybe? Sorry, I don’t know. 