This is a really nice distro.
How do i get Gimp on it?

yum install gimp <---- never mind i figured it out.

Welcome to the "other side" of two major Linux camps.

Grab gnome-tweak-tool. I think you'll find that handy.

This is an excellent guide to help you complete your Fedora installation..

http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f17.html

Out of habit, I don't sudo so I just ignore that bit. You might like to use it tho.

Thanks for the info Tux.
I have another question.I couldn't figure out how to shut-down the computer from the Fedora screen, so i used "Suspend" instead. Well that put my computer into a state of instant hibernation and i couldn't get the suspend off.
So i unplugged the computer and plugged it back in and that took it out of hibernation mode.
But, now i can not set my monitor resolution to 1440x900 as it isn't recognizing my Acer monitor anymore.
My question is how on Earth do you get the computer out of "Suspend" mode once you choose this option in Fedora?
I tried every key on the keyboard, but alas nothing worked.
Also how do you shut down through Fedora?

Rod, up in the right hand corner where you see your name. click that, then click log out.

BTW, Welcome to Fedora-17

I don't know anything about suspend mode in F17 Rod but in a normal suspend to ram operation, the suspend option changes to a resume option. A reboot would restore everything back to normal and shouldn't affect your supported video modes.

You can bring up the power off/restart menu by hitting ctrl-alt-del on the desktop or as Molly mentioned, from the login screen. I normally use a Cairo Dock addon that brings up a restart/power off menu.

It seems if you could boot to 1440x900 once, you could do it again, unless something changed in relation to the video drivers. 1440 x 900 is the resolution I use. You can check "displays" under system settings to see which modes are available. If everything is working properly, the display will pass a list of the supported video modes to the video driver, which are then displayed under system settings/display.



What model of video card do you use? (lspci from terminal will list it)

Oh yeah, very good!
Welcome to the GNU/Linux world Rod (from Kubuntu user)

Now you have to suffer and learn for a while

True YAFU,
Hey Rod,
I know one app you will be sure to get and that is the one Tux mentioned, Cario Dock, it is so great. Your log in-out also comes with that and you can add all your toys besides what I see on some of your screen shots, lol

lol, Cairo dock looks just like the Mac dock.

Looks like i will have to update my video driver. As the display dialog only shows 800x600 and 1280x768 possible resolution settings.

Thanks for all your help guys.