Jeffrey D Anderson wrote: > I notice that every time I restart my desktop nm-applet and > guidance-power-manager restart. guidance-power-manager is not a GNOME applet, it's an applet from KDE extragear. But it isn't needed with 4.2 anymore, you can use the battery plasmoid, which uses PowerDevil for power management, instead. nm-applet is still needed, the NM plasmoid is not ready yet. Kevin Kofler