as of two days ago, changes in kicker have disabled docking. this is 
problematic if you use kppp, because once logged on, it's annoying to 
hang up -- you have to open a terminal and kill pppd.

but . . .

if you open kppp, click on setup, click on the misc tab, and uncheck 
docking, it will simply minimize to the taskbar -- along with a 
running total of time online. you can then get it back to log off by 
simply clicking on it in the taskbar.

i've actually found that i like this better than docking, because it 
lets me have the time online at a glance, which is doesn't when 
docked.
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dep
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if you go with the flow you'll get
chopped to pieces by the turbines.