On 04/16/2011 06:34 AM, Ron Blizzard wrote: [snip] > the clock). I spent most of my "trial time" with SL 6 trying to figure > out how to separate these two applets from the Notification Applet -- > without success. Is there a configuration file I can change or a > configuration program I can run to customize this? Afaik there is no way to make Gnome applets that make use of the Notification Area by design to do something outside of the Notification Area. > I realize it's not a huge deal, but it's an irritant. Why does Gnome > want to limit the ability to customize? If you want the ability to customize everything have a look at KDE. Regards, Patrick