Network applet does not appear on startup and later!

[GroudonandKyogre]

Hi, I recently installed debian 12 on my 16 yo computer. I am using XFCE and disabled some startup services namely-Power manager, Print Queue Applet, JetBrains Toolbox. After disabling these, the network applet stopped appearing no matter how much I restart the computer. Even though I have network manager on in the sessions and startup application it still does not show up. All theses services seemingly don't stop my system from starting right?
Here is my systemd-analyze blame results-

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ak@debian:~$ systemd-analyze blame
1.407s ananicy.service
1.091s dev-sda1.device
 899ms udisks2.service
 825ms systemd-random-seed.service
 817ms networking.service
 756ms logrotate.service
 614ms apparmor.service
 561ms systemd-journal-flush.service
 340ms ModemManager.service
 339ms NetworkManager.service
 331ms systemd-udev-trigger.service
 281ms systemd-udevd.service
 274ms systemd-modules-load.service
 237ms keyboard-setup.service
 226ms plymouth-start.service
 224ms user@1000.service
 189ms systemd-logind.service
 181ms e2scrub_reap.service
 173ms avahi-daemon.service
 161ms lightdm.service
 157ms systemd-journald.service
 151ms modprobe@efi_pstore.service
 144ms modprobe@dm_mod.service
 140ms plymouth-quit-wait.service
 138ms wpa_supplicant.service
 126ms polkit.service
 114ms systemd-binfmt.service
 112ms dbus.service
  95ms upower.service
  90ms systemd-sysctl.service
  87ms colord.service
  86ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
  81ms lm-sensors.service
  71ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
  69ms dev-disk-by\x2duuid-09e6abd0\x2d3f51\x2d44f5\x2d9d88\x2dce6245455922.swap
  68ms systemd-remount-fs.service
  66ms proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.mount
  62ms sys-kernel-tracing.mount
  62ms modprobe@configfs.service
  61ms modprobe@drm.service
  60ms modprobe@fuse.service
  59ms kmod-static-nodes.service
  59ms dev-mqueue.mount
  58ms sys-kernel-debug.mount
  54ms systemd-update-utmp.service
  49ms dev-hugepages.mount
  42ms systemd-sysusers.service
  36ms cups.service
  32ms console-setup.service
  26ms alsa-restore.service
  25ms modprobe@loop.service
  20ms systemd-user-sessions.service
  19ms systemd-rfkill.service
  19ms plymouth-read-write.service
  16ms ifupdown-pre.service
  16ms user-runtime-dir@1000.service
  13ms sys-fs-fuse-connections.mount
  12ms sys-kernel-config.mount
  11ms systemd-update-utmp-runlevel.service
   4ms rtkit-daemon.service
lines 38-60/60 (END)

Also I use the latest kernel 6.1.28amd64.
Thanks

[Aki]

Moved to "Graphical Environments & Desktops" sub-forum.

[bbbhltz]

Hi,

You'll probably need to install a Network Manager applet or add it to your panel. If you try to add an item/applet to the panel is there a network manager?

There are different ways to get an applet if one isn't installed:

network-manager-gnome comes with an applet for network-manager that works on different desktops.

[LouisR4]

You may have some invalid services which you might have disabled that seems to be causing the problem. In fact, even if the Network Manager is among your startup applications, it may well require other services to run correctly.
Here are a few things you can try:
Check if the applet is running: That is why to activate it you only need to open a terminal and type nm-applet. If yes, the application can be added to startup manually.
Re-enable services: It is always a good idea to try turning it back on so give the Power Manager service another go and see if that will solve the problem. At other times, these services, which seem to be independent of each other, can create problems when disabled.
Reinstall Network Manager: To check that everything is configured, type sudo apt reinstall network-manager.