Mothra2@mailinator.com wrote:

> My zypper dissapeared from the tray this morning. There was an area
> wide outage of the connection from my ISP for a couple of hours. When
> it came back online,
> I noticed that there was no zypper symbol in the tray as it usually
> is.
> Even re-booting did not bring it back. it still shows in user/bin/
> zypper.
>
> How do I restore it to its usual place in the tray?

I doubt that it's zypper, because that is a CLI tool.
Maybe you mean opensuseupdater-kde? Hit ALT-F2 and enter that.

regards,
Andreas