Hi all

I am new here and also new to linux. Currently I am running SuSE 9.0 with KDE 3.1. I am behind a school firewall and everytime I boot up I have to run a NTLM python script that authenicates my browsers with the school's horrible win2003 servers. I usually run the command in bash: python main.py when i am in the python script folder. Is there a way to setup KDE so that everytime it boots in it automatically runs the script?

Thanks!

if you wish to run it when KDE (actually X) is started, just edit your xinitrc-file: with any text editor, open up a file called .xinitrc (dot-xinitrc) in your home directory (if there is no such file, just create it - this file doesn't need any special tags or anything, just add the command lines like you'd be in a shell)

then just add the lines you need into the file, and save. next time X is started, the script should be run.

BUT if you instead wish to run the script at bootup, when the whole system starts, search for a file called rc.local and add the needed script lines there...

this is at least how I do things. I'm not sure if KDE has some system to do this in some other way (I don't use KDE myself) but this should work..

EDIT: to make this clear, add this line (modify the path of the script, of course - I'll assume your python executable is in /usr/bin. you can check this with "whereis python" command -without quotes-) to your .xinitrc (or rc.local, if you prefer) file:

/usr/bin/python /path/to/your/script/main.py

thanks! i should have had a look first
i will try that..