NM-APPLET(1)

💖 NM-APPLET(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the nm-applet page — it lives in the General Commands Manual and it's literally the lil tray icon that runs your whole network life. let's get into it ✨

✨ NAME ✨

nm-applet — the network monitor and control GUI applet 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

nm-applet [ OPTIONS ]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. OPTIONS go in the middle, we love a flexible queen 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so nm-applet is a GTK-based GUI applet whose whole job is to monitor network status and devices, and to start and stop network connections managed by NetworkManager. she's the little face in your tray that tells you whether the wifi is serving or not. main character energy, fr fr 👑

here's the thing though — nm-applet is normally started at login by the desktop session manager, so you don't need to run it manually. like, she shows up on her own. she's not waiting for an invite. no cap. 🙈

also important: nm-applet conforms to the XDG System Tray specification, and it requires that the desktop environment provide a System Tray implementation — because that's where the applet gets embedded. no tray implementation? no embed. it's giving "i need somewhere to sit." 🎀

bestie not every desktop gives you a system tray, and without one there's nowhere for her to live. just so you know. 😭

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• NetworkManager(8)
• nm-connection-editor(1)

and that's the whole page, gorgeous 💜 this was network-manager-applet 1.36.0, from the General Commands Manual, dated NM-APPLET(1) era energy. go forth and let the session manager handle it, you don't gotta do a thing 🦋✨💖