KDE and autorun

[Robert]

Michael A. Peters wrote:
> I'm a GNOME user, so this may just be me.
> 
> I am completely unable to get autorun to work in KDE.
> It does not mount the DVD, it does not run the autorun script on the  DVD.
> 
> When the user logs in, the autorun thing bounces - but then it stops  
> bouncing, and that's all - media is not even mounted.
> 
> FC3 with all updates.
> What do I do?
> 
> -=-
> Secondly - is there a way from a shell script to turn off the event  
> noises temporarily? IE the beeps and burps from kdialog?
> 
> IE - run command to save user setting to shell variable
> turn off the sounds
> do my thing
> restore user settings
> 
> In gnome that kind of thing can be done with gconftool-2
> 
> Thanks for suggestions
> 
> 

You might want to look in the Kmix Handbook (Open Kmix, right click the 
speaker icon, click Show Mixer Window, press f1).
In Section 5 "Advanced Kmix Features" you'll find a scripting guide. As 
a reference, cron turns my volume to zero at 10:17 PM and sets it to 60% 
at 6:14 AM like this:
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#
#Set Master Volume Control to zero at 10:00 P.M.
17 22 * * *     DCOPSERVER=`cat 
/home/rj/.DCOPserver_mavis.localdomain_:0 | grep local`;export 
DCOPSERVER;dcop kmix Mixer0 setMasterVolume 0
#Set Master Volume Control to 60% at 6:14 A.M.
14 6 * * *      DCOPSERVER=`cat 
/home/rj/.DCOPserver_mavis.localdomain_:0 | grep local`;export 
DCOPSERVER;dcop kmix Mixer0 setMasterVolume 60
# Call the Alarm Script on Tue and Thur.
15 6 * * 2,4    /home/rj/alarm2
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Note that those are one-liners between the comments and have suffered 
word wrap here.

Good luck.