At 10:08 AM +1100 11/8/05, Yuandan Zhang wrote: >Hi, >i always get this process automatically. I am not sure how it was >started and what for. I noticed that if this process starts. the >gnome-menu panel gets a very slow response. > >is it ok to stop this and how? > >/usr/bin/artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -s 60 -m artsmessage -l 3 -f Probably. "artsd" suggests it is a daemon for "arts", and locate shows an arts RPM, and rpm -qi arts shows that it is an Analog Real Time Synthesizer, so you might lose some sound. Rpm -ql arts doesn't show any docs, but Google shows www.arts-project.org. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>