XFCE4.2

another thing, I’ve tried the first release of xfce4 is there a way now to remove the upper taskbar and use only the lil’iconbox?

if your distribution uses the Session Manager (e.g. you log in using GDM on Debian 3.1), then right-click on the session manager system tray icon (you may need to enable the tray icon via the xfce settings screen), Session Control, and kill xftaskbar. then save the session, with xftaskbar extinct and xfce4-iconbox living.

otherwise, look into the starxfce4 script, and more specifically the programs it loads using xinitrc

Good tip - it allowed me to finally suss how to get the taskbar working - I’m using it in preference to the iconbox but it doesn’t appear by default.

I really tried to like Gjots as my chosen replacement for Kjots and as the author has a Psion background I expected a paragon of simplicity and function. Unfortunately the layout was far more cluttered than Kjots, export functions were missing, copying and pasting was erratic and the system requirements of all the python stuff behind it seemed exhorbitant considering it’s such a lightweight app. On top of all that it had the audacity to fall over twice so I uninstalled it along with all the python libraries it required. So far Kjots is the only KDE app I’m hankering after.

Why am I getting core.xxx files in my home folder?
These files are a memory dump as a result of a programme crash. You can (maybe) find out which app was the culprit by issuing the following command:
# file core.xxx
(where xxx is particular to your file)
If you’ve got a few of them you could use:
# file core.*