Just got fluxbox running on my gentoo install, I have a few questions that would help me out a lot. I'm trying to get a better experience and improve my setup.

1.) auto mounting a cd when entered into the drive. (same for unmount)
2.) way to bind a key to 3ddesk
3.) screensaver
4.) audio apps (p2p, windows media player like, etc.)
5.) main shell loading resolution
6.) booting into windows xp from grub. I have it booting grub from second hdd (hdb) which grub detects as hd0. That would make my windows hdd hd1, but I can't seem to get it working. OSs are on different harddrives (windows=master, linux=slave)
7.) Any Other great tips for A newbie coming back once again to linux!



thanks in advance

automounting is bit of a problem, most file managers do it for you, but you can tell the kernel to do it automatically if you have supermount in the kernel.

as for key binding, look up on xhkey in portage, i think its the best for key binding, but window managers also can do it, I'm not sure of fluxboxes limitations on keybinding tho, so I'm not sure.

p2p i recoment giFT, it comes in 2 parts, giftd is the daemon that does everything, and a user interface that talks to the daemon, i prefer giftui for the interface, but theres also giftoxic and for KDE there apallon (?) ... giFT can use the gnutella, opentrack or fasttrack p2p networks, fasttrack is the same network kazaa uses.

for media you can use mplayer, or a gstreamer. gstreamer requires a front end, and most just play music, not video. mplayer can play almost any video/audio thats avable on Linux, even some gstreamer cant i think.

xmms is winamp like

xscreensaver is the norm for screen savers, but i think there are others, look at /user/portage/x11-misc for a collection of programs you can install, might find what you want for a screen saver there.