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If I go to Settings > Network I think I'm supposed to be able to select my Wifi Network manager by clicking the gear icon. Shown below to the right of "1000 Mb/s On/Off".

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But my Wireless connection doesn't show up at all on this GUI dialog shown above. I can only see the VPN box and the Network Proxy box. The Wired box is completely missing (in my case it's actually a wireless connection).

I need to get to the network manager, so I can access all the settings below.

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    Look over at "Wifi" in the left column. Wifi gets put in its own management category now. Alternatively, use nm-connection-editor - the old school original network manager connection editor that everyone using Ubuntu 16.04 (and not GNOME) will remember.
    – Thomas Ward
    Dec 3, 2018 at 16:37
  • not in front of my Ubuntu box right now, but I think I tried that and there was no gear there or when I clicked on the gear it didn't bring me to Network manager. Of course I'll have to try later when I'm in front of the machine. Thanks for the tip. Dec 3, 2018 at 16:44
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    the gear is actually lthe hamburger menu and then "Known Wifi Networks". Alternatively, nm-connection-editor will list the wifi configs as well.
    – Thomas Ward
    Dec 3, 2018 at 17:21
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    Maybe you've disabled the WiFi network, either by using some keyboard buttons or from the system menu (top right on the panel)?
    – Logix
    Dec 5, 2018 at 1:04
  • I didn't know I had to use the hamburger menu. There's actually no gear there in the Settings > Wifi. Unfortunately there's lacking consistency between Settings > Network and Settings > Wifi at this point in time. Dec 5, 2018 at 13:53

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I'm totally agree, GNOME 3 Settings network managements features are the very entry-level ATM, comparing to original Network Manager GUI and Applet.

How to enable classic Network Manager GUI for Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic

(For current user.)

Command-line solution:

# Make sure is's installed
sudo apt-get install network-manager network-manager-gnome

# Enable application desktop item
sed 's/^NotShowIn=/#NotShowIn=/g' /usr/share/applications/nm-connection-editor.desktop > ~/.local/share/applications/nm-connection-editor.desktop

# Set applet to auto-start
sed 's/^NotShowIn=/#NotShowIn=/g; s/^NoDisplay=/#NoDisplay=/g' /usr/share/applications/nm-applet.desktop > ~/.config/autostart/nm-applet.desktop

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