hi >>>>> "tim" == tim hall <tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: tim> I also run openbox-3 and do whatever I can to avoid waking up tim> the KDE leviathan. On a slightly more powerful machine I tim> don't think it would make so much difference, KDE is resource tim> hungry, but not too attention seeking :) i never use kde but i have bits and pieces of it for the sake of many KDE dependant applications. one of such applications is Rosegarden, every time i launch it i have several kde utilites running including unsolicited artsd. do you know how to prevent this from happening? is there some config file i can tweak to switch artsd from starting? tim> The services you want to stop are those tim> that would interupt the nice steady flow of data that you are tim> trying to write to the HD. -- gr{oe|ee}t{en|ings} artm