On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 16:27:04 +0100 Markus Schoder <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > After I launch KDE artsd is always running -- even if the "Enable > sound system" check box is not checked in the control center. > > By checking and unchecking the box and pushing Apply I can stop artsd > -- but it will happily restart the next time. > > Am I missing something here? > > -- > Markus Hello, Markus :) I had the same question a while ago, and the answer I was given is this: as root, run the following in a terminal window: chmod 444 /usr/bin/arts* There are a lot of KDE applications that require Arts to be running even to compile. If you run into one of those, just run something like: chmod 755 /usr/bin/arts* I don't know it that is the default permissions or not. What I do know, is that if you chmod 444, there is no way that Arts can start up. My two-cents worth: I used to have to kill Arts just to play mp3's with xmms :( But since I started running KDE 3.2 instead of the default version that comes with Fedora Core 1, all is well :) The above might not be the prettiest way to do it, but it does work :) Oh yeah, obviously, after you chmod 444 /usr/bin/arts*, you need to kill Arts. I hope that I have been of assistance to you :) Steven P. Ulrick ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.