On Saturday 12 November 2005 20:36, Pete wrote: > Hey All > I need to know how to have programs start automatically when I boot > up the system. I have been hunting around the Internet and the > closest thing I have found is supposed to be in > ~/desktop/.kde/Autostart. But I have not found anything to indicate > HOW to set this up. I am running KDE. I did find in Gnome where to > add startup programs in the Session. Is there something similar in > KDE? Can anyone help? Hi Pete, You're almost there. What you need to do is to create a symbolic link from the program into the Autostart directory. So, if you want to run /usr/bin/ssh-add at KDE startup, do: $ ln -s /usr/bin/ssh-add ~/.kde/Autostart Anand