Instead of showing signal level, it shows mobile phone icon. This workaround work for me, at least: “restart plasma-desktop” (without logging-out KDE), here is the command kquitapp plasma-desktop kstart plasma-desktop > /dev/null 2>&1 We can wrap it to shell script called restart-plasma like: root@pcxthinkslack:/home/bowo# cat /usr/local/bin/restart-plasma #!/bin/bash kquitapp plasma-desktop > /dev/null 2>&1 kstart plasma-desktop > /dev/null 2>&1 Result Before: After: =-=-=-=-= Powered by Blogilo