xfce4 and a lot of zombies

[Edscott Wilson Garcia]

On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Mr Machine wrote:

> hi
>
> i've just updated to the latest SVN xfce, and have noticed (via
> xfce4-taskmanager and pstree) that most applications i start from
> xffm-deskview, xfce4-panel, or the menu, are left as zombies when closed
> ... they don't seem to get cleaned up. is this a problem, or should i
> just ignore it?
>

xffm-deskview should not leave zombies behind. For each process started 
with xffm-deskview, you will have two others: one for processing output 
produced by the program in a diagnostic window and another for zombie 
cleanup. there are some exceptions to this run mode, like for 
example terminals. You can also see files in /dev/shm when xffm-deskview 
is keeping tabs on a program.

regards,