Is there a way to hide the network icon in the old notification area?

Ian W Scott <email address hidden> writes:

> I've got the network menu up and running nicely, but now I can still
> see the network-manager icon in the old notification area. It's now
> useless anyway, since it shows (inaccurately) that the network is
> disconnected. Is there a way to disable that old notification?

Basically you have two choises:

Option 1: Disable starting of nm-applet and network-manager daemon:

sudo mv /etc/init/network-manager.conf /etc/init/network-manager.conf-disabled
sudo mv /etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop \
/etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop.disabled

Option 2: Uninstall network-manager altogether

sudo apt-get remove network-manager-gnome network-manager

I added option 2 to the installation instructions in the wiki.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ConnMan/Installation

If something is not clear in the instructions, please let me know. I'm
happy to improve them. Or feel free to update them yourself, it's a wiki :)

We didn't want to conflict with the network-manager applet in the case
people would have a problem with indicator-network and would end up
having no network connection at all. For Natty we will handle the
network-manager migration properly.

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Kalle Valo

Bug #647655 is about network-manager migration.