off topic just how the heck does one use gnopernicus gnome?

[Jude DaShiell]

Once you get gnopernicus to talk, try hitting alt-f2 and if you're lucky 
you'll be asked for a command to run.  It's been a long time since I did 
anything with gnopernicus, but I think you can tab into a list of 
available commands and navigate it with up and down arrow keys from there. 
gnopernicus for now won't run any kde applications but gtk and gnome 
applications do work to some extent.  If you want to run a second command 
and you've already got the first and second display windows open try 
alt-f3 for a third window.