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[weboneando]

I´ve installed mandriva one with kde in an old pc to run azureus from there, now I want that everytime that the system starts it automatically runs the app, found some solutions in google where it says that a shortcut to the app must be copied to the autostart folder in home but I can´t find that folder, I´m new with linux and any help would be very appreciated.

Thanks

[scarecrow]

It's not that difficult to autostart programs when KDE logs in, but nevertheless you can use a dedicated (unofficial) kcontrol module:
http://autostart.pwsp.net/
Works fine here, and while it's not essential, it does save me some tuning work.
Should work with Mandriva, I guess- although I've stopped using that distro since some two years ago: buggy and far away from the "bleeding edge".
Latest versions of Gnome have their own autostart manager embedded, AFAIK (not swearing, I do not like and/or using Gnome).
Compilation should be fairly easy, once you have kdebase-devel, qt3-devel and kdelibs-devel packages installed. It may even be available from the Mandriva /contrib repository as a binary, I've not checked that.
And since Azureus has no KDE integration, it would be wise to close the program before logging out of KDE- else you may see at next login messages complaining that "Azureus was not properly shut down..." and blah-blah-blah.

[weboneando]

Thanks for the help, it seems a little complex for me at the moment but I´ll give it a try, can you point me to a good learning source for linux?

[scarecrow]

It isn't complex, really. Just untar in a directory, and the go there using konqueror, and press F4 to open a console. Then the usual stuff:
./configure --prefix=/usr
(you may be able to type just "./configure" and get away with it, but many times programs cannot decide the Mandriva KDE headers' directory).
Or alternatively, start typing in the console with
export KDEDIR=/usr
./configure
And now, simply
make
su -c "make install"
(last command will ask for the root password).
Now logout of kde and back in, and you should see the module ( alt+F2 and "kcontrol").
The other way is dragging the program .desktop files into the directory /home/weboneando/.kde/Autostart
(notice the dot: the directory is hidden). The place those .desktop files are stored is not uniform, it depends on the application.
Here's some good info, not only for KDE, but other DE's as well:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Autostart_Programs

A good introductive book to Linux:
http://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/intro-linux.pdf
Plus the old (and revised) Linux Cookbook should be OK:
http://dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_toc.html
Of course there are many good books out there (electronic or not), but most good ones aren't free.
A good learning experience, if you have some 5-6GB free is trying to install there a source distro, like Gentoo (using the old, completely manual way and not the new graphical installer) and the online installation manual, or Linux from scratch, if you're brave enough. It isn't necessary to end up with something usable, in both cases, but you will surely get a good grip on the way Linux is working.