> 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* That caused knotify to crash with a SEGV on the next restart and a requester appeared asking if I wanted to disable aRtS output which I confirmed. Interestingly I could then make artsd executable again and it would not start anymore on KDE launch :) > I hope that I have been of assistance to you :) > Steven P. Ulrick Yes! Thanks a lot. -- Markus ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.