On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 15:14:11 -0800 John Wendel <jwendel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday 19 November 2003 12:50 pm, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > > Hello, Everyone :) > > Anothe scenario: I chose to not start ARTS up when I log into > > KDE. And I also chose to not have any system sounds. Yet, when I > > reboot or log-in, the sounds are back. If I kill ARTS, it starts > > right back up, and I'm back to square one :( > > Any ideas about how to have the ARTS rpm's installed, but > > guarantee that it will never actually start up? > > Your help is greatly appreciated :) > > > > Steven P. Ulrick > > > Did you try the following > > su > cd /usr/bin > chmod 444 arts* > > Guaranteed to keep aRts from running. I don't know what else it will > break <grin>. > > Regards, > > John Hello, John :) A sublimely simple solution, one that I hadn't thought of, but one that I'm sure will come in handy in the future :) Not only has Juk not complained about aRts being chmod 444'd, but after I restarted Juk to see if it still worked, I started up XMMS and everything works perfectly. Now I can listen to music while I'm tagging mp3's :) Thanks again :) Steven P. Ulrick
