<b>Stephan Arts wrote:<br>> On Wed, Mar 19 spamrefuse at yahoo.com wrote:<br>>><br>>> Hello,<br>>><br>>> I'm using Fedora 7 Linux system with:<br>>> Xfce 4 Desktop Environment<br>>> version 4.4.2 (Xfce 4.4)<br>>><br>>> Also installed:<br>>> Thunar-0.9.0-2.fc7<br>>> xfdesktop-4.4.2-1.fc7<br>>><br>>> When I start applications by opening files in Thunar or from<br>>> the Desktop, this creates zombie processes. After a while,<br>>> I'm stuck with loads of zombie processes.<br>>><br>>> To get rid of these zombies, I have to kill Thunar and the<br>>> xfdesktop programs. This is not nice, as, for example,<br>>> my desktop icons disappear (of course I can restart<br>>> manually the desktop again..still not nice!).<br>>><br>>> I suppose this is a problem in
Xfce4.<br>>> Are you aware of these problems?<br>>> Is it solvable?<br>> <br>> Well, it sounds like a new problem, do you have an idea which<br>> application actually crashed?<br><br>Something should have crashed? Not that I have noticed.<br>I keep using Thunar and xfdesktop for opening files, mainly<br>PDFs (with evince), JPGs (with gimp) and movies (xine or vlc).<br><br>After a day or more, I run the 'top' command and see over<br>20 or 30 zombie processes, which all have their parent<br>processes as either Thunar of xfdesktop.<br><br>If this is something unusual or new, then I can investigate<br>more (how?).<br><br>Rob.<br><br></b><p> 
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