Some Fedora 17 Questions

[Thomas Dineen]

Gentle People:

       I just installed, last night, Fedora 17, on a PC! Things went 
very well overall.
Bravo good work!

     Following this I successfully loaded all the updates with thew 
update tool,
and again bravo it worked!

But now some questions:

1) The on screen menus, located at the top left of the screen, seem very 
dark, to
the point of being almost unreadable. Keep in mind it is not just the 
monitor, an HP
w2408h, in that the computer shares the monitor with three others via a 
four way switch.
The other computers produce a bright screen, each working as expected. 
So is there
any way to adjust this? Keeping in mind that I spent the evening going 
through the menus.

2) Periodically parts of the screen, typically the area contained by the 
boundaries of menu
entries will go all wonkers, looking like a 1960's TV on an antenna that 
has lost horizontal
sync. How do I fix this?

3) I tend to be a fan of the older format of pull down menus, is there 
any way to do pull
down menus?

4) Is there any way to totally disable the screen saver, not just 
setting it to a few hours?

5) Saving the screen setup: Is there any way to save the current 
configuration of the screen,
shell windows, tool windows, and such at logout, so that they reappear 
automatically on login?

Thanks for the help.
Thomas Dineen