How to start network configuration applet from command line in 16.04?

[tomwitt]

First, a little background. I'm having some multiple monitor woes where my taskbar doesn't show up on the correct monitor (when connected to an external monitor) or at all (when I take my laptop into a meeting). I still have the plasma desktop running and I can hit ALT-F2 to bring a up the "run this command" feature I just have no taskbar.

While at the meeting I figure I'll fire up Chrome via Alt-F2 and do a web search for how to fix the taskbar issue. That's when I discover I haven't started my wifi service. Without the taskbar, it's not immediately obvious what I need to run to get my network preferences to start. The ALT-F2 search does find some interesting networking related choices but none of them are the network applet.

What could I run from a konsole shell or from the ALT-F2 command window to cause the network configuration applet to start (which would allow me to start my wifi connection)?

[Rog131]

Plasma widgets

You could add widgets to the plasma panel and to the plasma desktop. There is also an option to run a plasmoids in a window:

Plasma5/QML2/GettingStarted: https://techbase.kde.org/Development...GettingStarted
--> Find and try out existing Plasmoids: https://techbase.kde.org/Development...ting_Plasmoids

To get a list of installed Plasma packages call

plasmapkg2 --list


plasmawindowed

Pick one of those lines of your choice and run for example

plasmawindowed <plasmoid>
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