autostarting applications when X is started

In the gnome environment you need to change a file called:
~/.gnome2/session-manual

To start x11vnc and mount 2 windows drives my session-manual looks as follows:

[Default]
num_clients=3
0,RestartStyleHint=3
0,Priority=50
0,RestartCommand=x11vnc -shared -forever
1,RestartStyleHint=3
1,Priority=50
1,RestartCommand=mount /mnt/win_c
2,RestartStyleHint=3
2,Priority=50
2,RestartCommand=mount /mnt/win_e

How to fix the home and end keys in putty

How to fix Hone and End ... for putty in Ubuntu
Check here

Adding path to single user, all users and root user

Got this information from
http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/prepostpath.htm

User Class	Script to modify
One user	$HOME/.bash_profile
All users except root	/etc/profile
root	/root/.bash_profile