But I just realized that the three main computers I use (home desktop, laptop, lab desktop) all have different layouts. I use Xfce for my window manager, which (by default) has two panels: one is sort of a taskbar/system tray (like MS Windows) and the other is a launcher bar (like OS X).
At home, I have the launcher bar on the left, with auto hide, and the task bar across the top (and gkrellm on the top right). But on my laptop, there is a lot less screen space, so I only have the taskbar, which is stretched across the bottom and auto hides. In the lab, I have a bigger screen, but I basicly only use three applications: Firefox, Thunderbird, and a terminal. So I just have the taskbar across the top with a few buttons for launching programs. I don’t have any menus set up, because I pretty much launch all programs (besides those mentioned above) with Alt-F2 (run program) or from a terminal. If I get desparate, Xfce let’s me access a menu from right-clicking the desktop. And that’s it…
On a totally different note, I decided to start taking notes on my laptop this quarter to make them easier to study and search later. So, I went looking for a good note-taking program. The good news is that other people have gone on the same search. I looked at a few (Basket is really cool) before remembering that I have Sqwee and I specifically mention in the description that it can be used for note taking…oops. So I tried it out…it works pretty well, actually. Nice and simple. But I did find a problem with ‘special’ characters. I wanted to add in some ∩ and ⊆ kind of stuff, which you can do (fairly) easily by just using HTML. Strangely, that works fine, until you edit and then re-save the page. When you edit it (at least in Firefox) the characters are no longer displayed as HTML entities (∩) but as the actual characters (∩). That’s pretty cool, but then when you save the page the get manged into ASCII or something. Kind of annoying…I guess I should fix that.
I don’t know why anyone would need to know the preceding, but I felt like sharing.