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If your laptop is hibernating, it's not actually running (it's saved its state to disk and has shut down), so it can't be downloading at the same time. What you need is to keep it from going into hibernation automatically until the downloading is finished.

Openbox, which is the default window manager for LXDE, allows specifying startup notification for anything invoked by keyboard shortcuts or its right-click menu. Might help.

Oracle's VirtualBox (http://www.virtualbox.org) lets you run virtual machines without any significant complications regarding booting (maybe it slows down my boot time by about 10 seconds). I'm currently posting this from a Debian Squeeze VM on a Windows XP3 host running VirtualBox.

If it's the latter, Alltray (http://alltray.trausch.us/) can probably do it.

For what's it's worth, the project homepage now has pictures of the icons.

Openbox can be set to start a particular application minimized (the formal term is "iconic"). If you want to play around with Openbox's XML rc file, the settings are documented at http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Applications . If you'd prefer a GUI tool for making such settings, check out my ...

Clickity is a tray-icon program for simulating mouse clicks and drags that are difficult to perform because of limited hand use or limited pointing hardware. It will run on any X system that supports tray icons and does not require an integrated desktop environment or accessiblity framework to be in...

Something similar to the program I mentioned in the previous reply is now available at http://clickity.sourceforge.net

I've got some ideas for a desktop-independent click-simulator tool. If you (jeff91) could email me at ericbohlman@gmail.com and leave your phone number (I'm also in the Chicago area) I'd like to run them past you (I'll summarize back to the forum). Basic idea: program would be a tray icon running on...

Actually, it says "i386", not "i586". Sorry.