how do I run a program everytime kde starts? (I want to autostart a network chat program everytime kde starts... )

you might want to try adding the command to the .xinitrc -file (notice the dot before the actual name; dot-xinitrc) in your home directory. if such file doesn't exist, create one; just plain text file, and add a new line to it like

exec /usr/bin/xmms

this should start xmms (if you have it) every time X starts....I don't know how this works if you have graphical login, but try it out. might work and you lose nothing if it doesn't...

Try writing a script to launch the program and put it in ~/.kde/Autostart

ok, thanks for the prompt replies. The strangest thing happens when I edit ~/.xinitrc, my program runs only when I shutdown KDE. I couldn't find a workaround so I used a script placed in /.kde/Autostart and it worked. But now I have another problem, I want to run that program like I'm a differnet user. So in KDE I login in as root, and I want to use that program as a regular user. How can I execute form within a script a program with a different user id ?

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I solved it by using kdesu, i put a command like kdesu -c command -u user in an executable bash script file in ~/.kde/Autostart and BANG it stared the way I wanted

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