Disregard that last one, it happened again today. Today when the applet disappeared I decided to poke around and instead of killing all related processes I took a jab at the process nm-applet. After killing that process and then restarting it through the terminal with 'nm-applet &' the icon returned. Since the internet connection had formed I now assume it must be a bug in the applet, not NetworkManager itself.
-- NetworkManager applet weirdness https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/517085 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs