This is the script I use on Mandrake 10.0 and Suse 9.2 with KDE. It was written by Philmo from "L'alliance francophone" team. #!/bin/sh BOINC_EXE="nom_de_l'executable_boinc (name of the boinc_exe version)" BOINC_DIR="/repertoire/d'installation/de/boinc (/directory/where/boinc/is/installed)" BOINC_PARAMS="-return_results_immediately" echo "Démarrage de BOINC...(Start of BOINC)" cd ${BOINC_DIR} ./${BOINC_EXE} ${BOINC_PARAMS} You save it ("autoboinc", for exemple) and chmod +x this script (it must be executable) You put this script in home/your_account/.kde/autostart And you set your options in KDE so as your account starts automatically when you boot your computer. And it works fine: I just push the "on" button of my machines and Boinc crunches happily :o) I have made the following change because I have several machines and want to control boinc via boinc_manager: BOINC_PARAMS="-allow_remote_gui_rpc" My second script (more simple as I have written it myself): boinc is in home/your_account/BOINC And you put the following script in home/your_account/.kde/autostart #!/bin/sh cd /home/your_account/BOINC ; ./boinc -allow_remote_gui_rpc You save it and chmod +x this file (it must be executable) And it works for me. (please note that BOINC and boinc are different directories because bash is treating capital letters and lower-case letters differently) Regards, Arnaud