Enclosed is a patch for kde arts. The patch has been part of Slackware for the past four years. I compared the text to the svn tree and do not find the patch.

From the Sept. 19, 2006 change log:

Tue Sep 19 18:13:09 CDT 2006
l/arts-1.5.4-i486-2.tgz:  Patched an annoying bug where audio programs such as ogg123 would not work unless KDE had been run first.

The date in the change log matches the date in the patch file.

Feel free to include the patch.

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--- ./mcop/mcoputils.cc.orig	2006-01-19 10:16:08.000000000 -0600
+++ ./mcop/mcoputils.cc	2006-09-19 17:07:50.000000000 -0500
@@ -47,7 +47,13 @@
   result = lstat(tmp_dir, &stat_buf);
   if ((result == -1) && (errno == ENOENT))
   {
-    return 1;
+    result = mkdir(tmp_dir, 0700);
+    if (result == -1)
+    {
+       arts_warning("Error: Can not create directory \"%s\".\n", tmp_dir);
+       return 1;
+    }
+    result = stat(tmp_dir, &stat_buf);
   }
   if ((result == -1) || (!S_ISDIR(stat_buf.st_mode)))
   {
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