how do i get something to go off right when i start up KDE
like xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"
i tried xinitrd or whatever and it doesnt work...
also how do i get my wireless to turn on automatically everytime i boot up i have to do modprobe ndiswrapper ... dhclient wlan0

also one last question how do i get kde to mount my dvd drive properly if i do mount /dev/sr0 /mnt it will mount my drive painlessly but if i try to edit my fstab it recognizes a new cd but wont mount it no matter what i do with HAL

1.) Create a file with your favourite text editor:

Autostart dir is not right there at the start, don't worry about it

2.) write the instructions in it:

or whatever

3.) make it executable

4.) Restart KDE

Good luck

Add it as a bash script in ~/.kde/Autostart. Hopefully that should do the trick.
There are several ways to do it, my personal preference is by calling a custom script or by adding the commands to /etc/rc.d/rc.local, however I roam quite a bit so I need to mess with my wireless settings more than average.
There is a long sticky thread at the top of the forum, but basically, if you have your dvd drive in your fstab, HAL won't mount it. If you take it out, HAL should handle it just fine and it will show up in KDE.

thanks guys im really loving slackware i was skeptical at first but it seems to be my favorite distro so far its actually making me think haha

and i took my dvd drive out of my fstab now theres no icon for it in storage media..... before there was but unmountable.

my autostart looks like its in /usr/share/autostart/
i did everything there made my own document added that stuff in it did that command rebooted mouse still acts funky until i do that command in the konsole

Did you add yourself to cdrom and plugdev in /etc/group ?

well im logged in as root so it shouldnt be an issue 0.0

Yeah, it might be an issue if root isn't in plugdev and cdrom. And by the way, that is probably not a good idea to add root to those groups. You really should be working as a normal user and then either su to root to do root things or add yourself to sudo.

That is probably for system-wide stuff and isn't guaranteed to stay unchanged. In other words, an upgrade to KDE might alter this directory. If you've run KDE as a normal user, a .kde (note the . ) has been created in that users home, and that is a much better place to make your changes. Upgrades to the OS never affect a ~ directory.

A small correction ... you can change the autostart directory in KDE Settings (which I prefer as ~/.autostart)

welll i still cant get my cdrom drive to work correctly ={

Care to enlighten us on what you've done? Nobody here can see your computer, so you are going to have to tell us what is going on. In detail.

feel free to check out my thread on an offiste forum for any ideas

- perry

Perry - I don't see any help on the offsite forum at all. Feel free to link offsite, but if the link does not answer the question and is just there to drive people to your personal forum, don't bother.