Use a tiling wm :). They will be confused and wander off. I do that.

We're all aware of how sound standardisation is a mess. Broken compatibility with other Unixes, layers upon layers, high latency, bugginess, etc. THE SOLUTION IS YOU SWITCH TO OSSv4! It actually works! Please, people, for the sake of the developers and the users who have to scratch their heads wondering how to get their alsa/esound/pulseaudio/whatever to play nice. Just use ossv4!