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I have the exact problem in 13.10 as this user Why are there two Wifi indicators in the panel?.

Here are some screenshots:

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Here are some screenshots from another user: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2183020&p=12825563

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ifconfig and iwconfig outputs

$ ifconfig
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:XXXXXX  Mask:XXXXXXX
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:2243 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2243 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:209889 (209.8 KB)  TX bytes:209889 (209.8 KB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr XXXXXXXXX  
          inet addr:XXXXXX  Bcast:XXXXXXXX  Mask:XXXXXXX
          inet6 addr: XXXXXXX Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:5925 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:3361 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:2951818 (2.9 MB)  TX bytes:630579 (630.5 KB)

$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11abgn  ESSID:"XXXXX"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: XXXXXXXX
          Bit Rate=72.2 Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:on
          Link Quality=49/70  Signal level=-61 dBm  
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:153  Invalid misc:472   Missed beacon:0
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    A screen shot would actually be nice here, but yes, probably a bug. Is it a clean install? – Bruno Pereira Oct 22 '13 at 13:41
  • Please, try again uploading a screenshot - or just add a dropbox/ubuntu-one link to a .png file and someone will edit it into your question for you. – Braiam Oct 23 '13 at 13:02
  • so far it looks like your network manager is showing a wired network (right icon with lock) and a wireless network (left icon) – Jonathan Rogiest Oct 23 '13 at 23:11
  • They are both wireless networks. You can see the pull down menus in the 3rd post of the thread on the Ubuntu forums. – Alex Oct 24 '13 at 00:59
  • On the 3rd post it shows that one reads "draadloze network = wireless" and the other "Wired = bekabeld"? Those 2 application indicators are in different languages... – Jonathan Rogiest Oct 24 '13 at 01:28
  • Cntrl+ Alt+ T and type ifconfig and iwconfig in your terminal. Update your question with those results. – Jonathan Rogiest Oct 24 '13 at 01:44
  • I added the output for ifconfig and iwconfig. I also took screenshots to show that they are both wireless connections. – Alex Oct 24 '13 at 14:35
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    Looks like you have two network management applications installed. Perhaps you installed the popular WICD next to Network Manager for example? Please elaborate a bit more about what you changed to your system compared to a clean installation. – gertvdijk Oct 24 '13 at 14:41
  • This happened after I uninstalled the gnome Bluetooth manager and installed the blueman Bluetooth manager. Later I reverted back but still had two wifi icons. Could installing the blueman package possibly have installed another wifi connection manager? WICD is not installed. – Alex Oct 24 '13 at 15:14
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    @Jonathan Rogiest I just read your profile. Always happy to get help from a fellow permie :) – Alex Oct 24 '13 at 15:16
  • @emptysenti thx fellow permie! Agree with @gertvdijk maybe reverting did not work properly. try sudo apt-get remove --purge application and where the word application use the name of the actual application. Example in my case I use network manager aka nm-applet so my line would be sudo apt-get remove --purge nm-applet – Jonathan Rogiest Oct 24 '13 at 18:24
  • Strange, I ran your command and it returned "Unable to locate package nm-applet". However, nm-applet is one of the hidden start up apps. – Alex Oct 25 '13 at 15:31
  • You need to select the application you don't need any more. nm-applet was my example but in your scenario it might be another. Find the app you want to remove using this link – Jonathan Rogiest Oct 26 '13 at 12:35
  • so in case you want to remove blueman bluetooth manager and the command line for that app is for example blueman then you should do the following sudo apt-get remove --purge blueman This link will also help since there are different ways of removing packages/software/applications. – Jonathan Rogiest Oct 26 '13 at 12:41
  • did you happen to install unity8 to try? – Mateo Apr 10 '14 at 01:28

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The one with the shorter menu (on the right in the screenshots) is "indicator-network", removing it and its associated system settings application (you are prompted for this when you remove indicator-network) will remove it from the bar. You can remove it with:

sudo apt-get remove indicator-network

I had the same problem after I stopped network manager autorunning and then enabled it again.

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For Lubuntu users only:

From the main menu select Preferences > Default applications for LXSession. In the window that then appears, click on the Autostart tab, then click the remove button next to @nm-applet in the section Manual autostarted applications.

"Default applications for LXSession" window

Log off then on again, and there should now be just one icon.

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i had the same problem, the reason was a second desktopmanager (mate), i had installed. After i cleaned the /etc/xdg from the files where mate is inside i have only one icon. maybe there was something doubble.

greatings

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I had same issue when upgrading to Ubuntu 16.10. I solved it by starting "Startup Applications" and unselecting "indicator-network"

taking indicator-network startup

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