Very frustrated with F16

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, 5 Jan 2012 14:27:30 -0700
Paolo Galtieri <pgaltieri at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just installed F16 as a VM under VMware.  After booting up and installing
> all the updates I cannot find the 2 system config settings that are present
> in F14.
> 
> Specifically the Windows and Startup Applications config items.  The first
> allows me to configure windows so that they become active as soon as the
> mouse enters them.  The second allows me to setup my configuration so that
> all applications that were running at the time I log out are automatically
> started the next time I login.  Where are these configuration items?  The
> Windows one used to be part of the control-panel package, but it's no
> longer there.
> 
> Note I am not running gnome-shell since it failed to start so I'm running
> in fall back mode.

Switch to XFCE, your system will run a ton faster and all these kind of
features are available in the non-gnome desktops.