said Nick Koretsky:
| Why do you need arts? The only thing it is useful is for trinity itself | making sounds, and DE making sounds is one of the most idiotic ideas. | Just go into trinity controls center and disable it (uncheck enable | button in Sound System section)
good point and yes, i've now done that (though i'd still like to resolce the underlying issue, because broken stuff has a way of coming back to bite).