I'm running Slackware 13.1 with KDE 4.4.3 on an ASUS eee pc 1000H. I sometimes use it with an external 19" monitor running plasma-desktop and sometimes use it on the move just with its own 10" screen with plasma-netbook (which I like v much).

I switch between the two at the console (I don't use KDM, but boot up to the console as is the default in slackware) by running a script that either puts an appropriate xorg.conf in place for my 19" monitor or else removes the xorg.conf if I'm just using the 10" screen. After that I launch X and KDE with startx.

This works fine, but I then have to select plasma-desktop or -netbook via System Settings, which can be a bit fiddly. What I'd prefer to do is to launch KDE with the correct plasma mode. Can anyone advise me on how this could be done?

This appears to be done by changing the appropriate autostart file, although it also appears that the KCM does many other changes as well, so simply changing files in ~/.config/autostart may not be sufficient.

Thanks for the suggestion - and apologies for the very delayed response from me!

I had a play with the autostart files but couldn't find a way of reliably getting it to work.

The needed changes are to add/remove the Hidden=true key from the files I believe. You may find kwriteconfig to be helpful here.