For those of you running a recent Ubuntu system or have a Debian based distro, check out the libnotify-bin package. @ the command line: sudo apt-get install libnotify-bin Once it's installed try doing this: notify-send -i "/usr/share/icons/Human/48x48/actions/back.png", "Screen Orientation" "Left" If you didn't guess, I'm working on getting rotation working properly on my tablet... but just think of the fun you could have with this little app. For those who can't play with the above fun, come to the November NCOLUG meeting at NCState College room 136 in the Fallerius (sp?) building Thursday November 5th at 6:30. I'm plannin on having identical laptops, one to install Ubuntu 9.10 and one for some Windows 7 OS. We'll do fresh installs and compare the ease of install and functionality of the devices in an out-of-the-box experience. Mike K.