i deeply apologize for having started this thread, which i foolishly thought might have something to do with tde.

the early response, which also had to do with tde, was not seem correct for my system: right clicking the little pile of icons at the right in kicker did produce a menu, one item of which was to add an applet. but when clicked the list provived did not include kweather. nor, sadly, the little applet for monitoring battery level. as to the latter, which is more important to me, i did some poking around and got to the services manager but found no immediate way of starting klaptop or of adding it to the panel. kweather is a frippery, but battery level isn't.

so at the risk of sparking another wild tangent, i ask: how might i get the laptop daemon and battery monitor to start at login and appear on kicker?

thanks in advance.