Half a Page of Scribbled Linux

Sometime within the last few Fedora upgrades, Emacs changed. Before, the file you asked for was the file you got. Then, someone got the bright idea to put a help screen up first, forcing you to enter Ctrl-L before you could get to work. Being a long-time Emacs user, I hated this. But I couldn't find out how to get rid of it. Until I found this page that has the magic incantation to add to ~/.emacs

(setq inhibit-startup-message t) ; Don't want any startup message

Yay!

The GDM greeter in Fedora 8 has an option to suspend to RAM, but not one for hibernate (suspend to disk). I edited /etc/gdm/custom.conf to add a custom command that runs /usr/bin/pm-hibernate. To see the custom commands from the GDM greeter, you have to press F10. Selecting the command didn't work--the greeter screen started again. The fix is to set CustomCommandNoRestart0=true.