diff --git a/0002-appindicator-outside-X11.patch b/0002-appindicator-outside-X11.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..031be78
--- /dev/null
+++ b/0002-appindicator-outside-X11.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+From d0d7319228ea038860c055422960ef4ac490c01b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
+Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 14:16:09 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] applet: use appindicator if we can outside of X11
+
+The XEmbed-based GtkStatusIcon will silently do nothing in many
+environments nowadays. In particular, it can't work outside X11.
+
+Let's prefer X11 only if we got no app indicator support. Otherwise, use
+the best backend possible and then turn on indicator support if it was
+not X11.
+
+Based on work by Aleksei Bavshin <alebastr89@gmail.com>.
+
+https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/network-manager-applet/-/merge_requests/129
+---
+ src/applet.c | 9 +++++++++
+ src/main.c   | 8 ++++++--
+ 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/src/applet.c b/src/applet.c
+index 5c968ffe..8ef6833a 100644
+--- a/src/applet.c
++++ b/src/applet.c
+@@ -3392,6 +3392,15 @@ static void nma_init (NMApplet *applet)
+ {
+ 	applet->icon_size = 16;
+ 
++#ifdef WITH_APPINDICATOR
++#ifdef GDK_WINDOWING_X11
++	if (!GDK_IS_X11_DISPLAY (gdk_display_get_default ()))
++		with_appindicator = TRUE;
++#else
++	with_appindicator = TRUE;
++#endif
++#endif
++
+ 	g_signal_connect (applet, "startup", G_CALLBACK (applet_startup), NULL);
+ 	g_signal_connect (applet, "activate", G_CALLBACK (applet_activate), NULL);
+ }
+diff --git a/src/main.c b/src/main.c
+index 1c0f7e94..769ead4d 100644
+--- a/src/main.c
++++ b/src/main.c
+@@ -58,8 +58,12 @@ int main (int argc, char *argv[])
+ 
+ 	bindtextdomain (GETTEXT_PACKAGE, NMALOCALEDIR);
+ 	bind_textdomain_codeset (GETTEXT_PACKAGE, "UTF-8");
+-	if (!with_appindicator)
+-		gdk_set_allowed_backends ("x11,*");
++#ifndef WITH_APPINDICATOR
++	/* If we got no app indicator, out only chance of doing anything
++	 * useful is the XEmbed-based GtkStatusIcon, which only works on
++	 * X11. Prefer it. */
++	gdk_set_allowed_backends ("x11,*");
++#endif
+ 	gtk_init (&argc, &argv);
+ 	textdomain (GETTEXT_PACKAGE);
+ 
+-- 
+GitLab
+
diff --git a/network-manager-applet.spec b/network-manager-applet.spec
index 6feb55a..1f45fdc 100644
--- a/network-manager-applet.spec
+++ b/network-manager-applet.spec
@@ -20,13 +20,14 @@
 Name: network-manager-applet
 Summary: A network control and status applet for NetworkManager
 Version: 1.30.0
-Release: 2%{?dist}
+Release: 3%{?dist}
 License: GPLv2+
 URL: http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/
 Obsoletes: NetworkManager-gnome < %{obsoletes_ver}
 
 Source: https://download.gnome.org/sources/network-manager-applet/1.30/%{name}-%{version}.tar.xz
 Patch1: 0001-nm-applet-no-notifications.patch
+Patch2: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/network-manager-applet/-/commit/d0d73192.patch#/0002-appindicator-outside-X11.patch
 
 Requires: NetworkManager >= %{nm_version}
 Requires: libnotify >= 0.4.3
@@ -153,6 +154,9 @@ desktop-file-validate $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/applications/nm-connection-edit
 
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Feb 17 2023 Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk> - 1.30.0-3
+- applet: use appindicator if we can outside of X11
+
 * Thu Jan 19 2023 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.30.0-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_38_Mass_Rebuild