It's a pretty annoying bug, but it requires large changes to the design, not something we can easily backport to Lucid.
Fortunately, the changes have been done upstream and the package that includes this is now at least in the current development version: Oneiric. I'll mark this as Fix Released, because I can only acknowledge the issue for previous releases (and it's been like that forever now, and in all Linux distros around the same time). I'm absolutely certain there's a duplicate for this, but I fail to find it in the bugs database. Also, note that there is an easy workaround: if "Account1" is disconnected, you can start nm-applet manually with it's name: "nm- applet" in a terminal or in the Run dialog. Otherwise, you will need to first do: "sudo killall nm-applet"; to close the instance from the other accounts, then you'll be able to start a new one. ** Changed in: network-manager-applet (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/818337 Title: Multi-session desktop, network connection down To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/818337/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs