I've got no Systray on a netinstall+MATE

I'm not that sure but I think you need to install the package "trayer" and "tktray"


# aptitude install trayer tktray


Tell me if it worked.

EDIT: Probably you have already tried, but do a right click on the panel and search for the system tray plugin in the list.

tktray isn't present, and trayer is a diferent programme altogether, unfortunately (which also didn't display the icons I wanted: nm-applet et al)....

Actually, the Systray seems to be working (The Authentication icon I got from polkit appeared there), yet nm-applet isn't showing.

jbar has a good point.

I'm suspicious that you might not have network-manager installed so try this:


$ sudo aptitude install network-manager


To start the service try this:


$ sudo /etc/init.d/network-manager start


to force nm-applet program to be executed try this:


$ nm-applet


Tell us how it goes.

ah, it's acutally present now!

Excellent.

What did you do to solve the problem? I'm curious

Me too. Perhaps something happened that resulted in NetworkManager running this time around, yet not last week, or perhaps it's got something to do with one of the things I edited in /etc/blablabla.

Anyway it worked after a reboot so it doesn't seem like a fluke. Thanks for all the help and suggestions - at least for now.