Somebody in the thread at some point said: >> Well anything that supports a system tray is ok. There are both GNOME >> and KDE frontends. Even Fluxbox has such modules - >> >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ftmenu/ > > Thanks, Rahul! Do you know about fvwm2? Does it have a frontend similar to > this? It'll be simpler for you to just try it, I think. # service NetworkManager start $ nm-applet & see if you get a little icon somewhere, or a spew of errors. -Andy