gnome spawning artsd daemon?

[Steve Bergman]

I am running FC2 on a server with several thin clients connecting to it
XDMCP.  All desktops are Gnome.  No KDE involved.  So why is each
desktop running this on the server: 

 /usr/bin/artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -s 60 -m artsmessage -l 3 -f

Is this expected?  The server does not even have a sound card and the
sound is being done (and working) by setting ESPEAKER properly based on
the DISPLAY variable.

-Steve