Ubuntu – Restore wireless / bluetooth / battery icon back to Top Panel

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This recipe will show you how to easily add the wireless, bluetooth and battery icon back to your top panel in Ubuntu 7.10 (gnome).


I’m a newb to Ubuntu and just recently installed it on my HP TC1100 tablet pc and ran into the problem where my wireless, bluetooth and battery button were missing. I checked all the items available in the Add to Panel menu but could not figure it out.

The answer was easy! Just readd the Notification Area back under Utilities in the Add to Panel menu. Here is the step by step.

1. Right-Click on the Top Panel area or whichever Panel you want to add the icons too and choose Add to Panel

2. Scroll down to the Utilities area and either Drag the Notification Area item to the Panel or click on it and click the +Add button.

3. Voila! Bluetooth (if you have BT), Wifi, and Battery status will be back. Wasn’t that easy?

 

33 Comments -


  1. Anonymous said on October 2, 2008

    Thank you!!!! This has been getting on my nerves for a week!!
    GREAT

  2. Cgoody said on December 5, 2008

    awesome!

  3. Stefano said on January 25, 2009

    thanks…very useful

  4. petee said on May 4, 2009

    Thank You sooo much, deleted it by mistake and just decided to reinstall ha
    happened again and decided to look for help this time
    You saved me :D

  5. Dragix said on July 3, 2009

    Thank you! This has also been bothering me. This page was the 1st result on Bing

  6. Anonymous said on November 30, 2009

    this method is very easy and i encourage you to help in other issues

  7. Jon said on January 9, 2010

    Many thanks for this post – I am not sure how it disappeared, but it is very handy to get it back! :o)

  8. Anonymous said on February 10, 2010

    I had only the Bluetooth icon missing, so this fix didn’t work. I tried deleting the panel and creating a new one, but when I added the Notification Area, I still only had the battery icon, sound icon, and wireless icon – no Bluetooth. What I finally figured out was: go to System > Preferences > Bluetooth. In the bottom left-hand corner, I checked “Show Bluetooth icon”. This made the icon show up in the notification area once again. Yippie! :-D
    I feel dumb, so I hope I can help others avoid my recent frustration.

  9. Anonymous said on March 28, 2010

    Cheers! =)

  10. Terry said on May 21, 2010

    Wow, that WAS easy. I’m a newbie who accidentally did a “Remove from Panel” of my wireless icon…got it back in like 30 seconds.

  11. Prabakaran said on June 7, 2010

    hi thanks

  12. Prabakaran said on June 7, 2010

    its working well thanks by
    Prabakaran
    ZyberZap Internet Cafe

  13. jinhai said on June 8, 2010

    thank you! very nice

  14. MORTEN said on June 10, 2010

    thanks. Works fine also with 8.04

  15. Bluemount4u said on June 14, 2010

    thanks, very useful.

  16. longreach81 said on June 18, 2010

    Thank you so much! I had this problem and it was driving me nuts, I can’t beleive I never noticed the bluetooth preferences…

  17. Akshay Singh said on July 30, 2010

    really helped alot

  18. ANSURAJ said on August 2, 2010

    thankqa…….i was struggling on it!

  19. Dragana said on August 19, 2010

    Thanks! Thanks! Thanks!

  20. Xyrus said on August 26, 2010

    Thnx!

  21. Logan Kellar said on September 9, 2010

    WHY IS THIS NOT BLINDINGLY OBVIOUS
    srsly why is this not one of the selectable things by default…

    u are my savior :D

  22. Prabesh708 said on September 10, 2010

    thanks a lot.

  23. soyfantomas said on September 12, 2010

    Thanks! :D

  24. bolo said on December 17, 2010

    What a hilarious comment. A Linux user, searching Bing.

  25. misq23 said on December 19, 2010

    fabulous :D

  26. Gurgel Renan said on January 13, 2011

    THanks a lot!!

  27. Sdfasdf said on February 12, 2011

    Thanks

  28. Hexsoos U Ah said on February 20, 2011

    very nice…tanks for all……….

  29. Peter said on March 12, 2011

    Thanks! That was easy!

  30. Renosh11 said on July 10, 2011

    thinks now very easy 

  31. Amarnath said on August 23, 2011

    Thanks a ton … :)

  32. Mahesh said on October 8, 2011

    Hey, Simple solution, That was bugging me. Thanks!

  33. Jake said on November 5, 2011

    Thank you so much! On my nerves for weeks. Finally got around to researching it and your page came right up.

 

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