Debian 12 - 2.10 master branch image for the Raspberry Pi 4b/400

That was where I was expecting it ... it wasn't there.

Do you know what app is responsible for that icon in the status tray on XFCE? nm-applet wasn't installed and I couldn't determine which XFCE package provides it.

I’m not too sure.
I know on the image I’ve made it’s there, so I thought rod’s would be the same as well.
I haven’t updated mine since I added the build environment for the Litex-CNC project at about the time rod’s became the “official” image.

We took slightly different routes in the building of the images whilst using the same tools.

I think the official image missed including a NetworkManager status tray applet. There seems to be several options but, contrary to the name, network-manager-gnome seems to list specific compatibility with XFCE and may well be the one that XFCE uses natively and doesn't drag the whole Gnome desktop over with it (see dependencies in the link above).

wifi can be set up using sudo menu-config.

If someone can confirm a working network manager that does not break things, I can look at adding it as some changes are needed.
I did not install the whole xfce4 environment out of kindness to the Pi's resources.

My version needed a bit of hacking to get it working for Andy and 2.9.1 and more changes are required now he has developed an install script for linuxcnc from the linuxcnc repo files.

Rod,
I think the missing network manager is in the way xfce is installed. I'll have to check but when I've been building my images I use a "more complete" install of xfce. I'll be able to get back later this Arvo after I've done a few odds & bobs.

Yeah I thought it was this
task-xfce-desktop