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> My installation (latest in arch) only has one tab for components.

Perhaps your schematic has no nets yet?

> Also i am kind of curious if anyone has written any scripts for attrib
> promotion and addition.

I have a pair of scripts that let you use openoffice calc (via *.csv)
to edit attributes: http://www.gedasymbols.org/user/dj_delorie/

> I assume it is trivial in pcb to make it show a random attrib as the
> silkscreen.

Er, no?  It shows the refdes, description, or value, but that's a
board-global choice.

(Unless you edit the pcb sources themselves, of course)