Some Fedora 17 Questions

[Rick Stevens]

On 12/27/2012 01:06 PM, Bruno Wolff III issued this missive:
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 12:51:09 -0800,
>    Thomas Dineen <tdineen at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>
>> 3) I tend to be a fan of the older format of pull down menus, is there
>> any way to do pull
>> down menus?
>
> For now you can use forced fallback mode. That will be dropped
> eventually (probably for Fedora 19), but there is talk of a gnome-shell
> extension to provide something similar. Alternatively should could
> switch to another desktop.
>
>> 4) Is there any way to totally disable the screen saver, not just
>> setting it to a few hours?
>
> I believe you can turn that off in the start up applications configuration.
>
>> 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?
>
> I am pretty sure I have seen a setting to save which applications were
> running when you logout and restart them at the next login. I am not
> sure where exactly it is.

On XFCE, it's the "Automatically save session on logout" option on the 
"General" tab in the "Start->Settings->Session and Startup" menu.

There used to be something like it on Gnome2, but since I absolutely
refuse to use the horribly mangled and bodged Gnome3 environment (what
the hell were they thinking?), I have no idea where it would be if it
still exists.
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