mousepad zombies after closing and can't be killed

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Jackson Robertson wrote:
> I have been running xfce4.4.1 for a while now and last week I noticed
> that mousepad was not closing and instead was staying in a state of
> zombie. I tried to killall as user and as root but to no avail. Is there
> some way to get this fixed. I am using xfce provided by the may
> archlinux repos. Thanks for the help and let me know if you need any
> other info from me.

How did you launch mousepad in the first place?  Panel?  Xfce menu? 
Thunar?  Desktop?

	-brian