On Friday 28 May 2004 3:12 pm, Artem Baguinski wrote: > 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. Hm. Rosegarden shouldn't be starting artsd, and it doesn't do so when I run it in a non-KDE environment here. (In fact I've always thought of that as an advantage of not running KDE -- things like Rosegarden don't have to contend with unwanted stuff like aRts.) So I'm not sure what's up there. Still, I think the easiest way to guarantee artsd never runs at all is to delete it, or at least rename the binary to something else. I have occasionally done that when annoyed with KDE for starting it with the new KDE session. Chris