All I've ever done is uncheck the box in the sound section of kcontrol. Artem Baguinski wrote: > 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. > >