Re: Two answers...

[Albert Schueller <schuelaw whitman edu>]

Quoting Mark Volpe (volpe.mark@epamail.epa.gov):
> Go to the "Session" section of your control panel, and you can configure
> startup programs. (It used to be called Non-session-managed programs, and
> it took me a week to find :)

Got it thanks.  Also discovered the "Matched Windows" section of the
Control Center, very nice.  Let's me start my calendar iconified, I
think I'm in love with gnome.

Recent convert from KDE, thanks

> > 2) How do I cause the "maximize" button on a window (second button from
> > the right on windows in the default Helix distro) to maximize vertically
> > only?
> 
> Click it with the middle button.

Great.  I don't think I'd have discovered that one on my own.

Albert