Recommendations accepted. I downloaded ion-3ds-20051029.tar.gz, ran make, sudo make install, changed my .xsession to exec ion3, logged out and back in, all was well. Oh, I run Novell Linux Desktop (NLD) so it's nice this works even with a partially limited distro like this one.
I quite like the text clock and load meter on the bottom. One of the things I missed was my date/time stamp from KDE. This meets that need perfectly. Thanks for the help, andrewdied
