Hello Yuandan, On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 10:08:26 +1100 Yuandan Zhang <yzhang4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 Commonly used by the kde notification system.. If you start a kde program that play sound, you'll get artsd running (this might conflict w/ other sound daemon/players systems). Regards, -- wwp