I can't find the pid of a zombie process

From: .sSweetMarie (brieflyblue_at__^hootmail.com)
Date: 09/29/03 

Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 06:39:50 GMT

I'm running Slackware 8.0 with a 2.4.19 kernel on an i586.

The problem I have is with the Gentoo file manager, which I really like,
but it's a little buggy, and sometimes I have to force a shutdown of it
with /bin/kill or skill. When I do this, it *often* leaves behind ghost
windows. They are usually some sort of dialog box. I can see them on
screen, can move them, minimize them or whatever, but there is nothing in
them (except whatever was on top of them: whenever I bring the "ghost" to
the foreground, it carries an image of whatever had been on top of it, then
drags that image around wherever I drag the ghost window to.)

I can't kill them. I can't find the pid with ps -A or under /proc. I
have to reboot to get rid of them, and it's a little frustrating.
xkill won't kill it, and top won't list it.

The only program that would give me any info about the little imp is:

bash-2.05# xwininfo

xwininfo: Please select the window about which you
          would like information by clicking the
          mouse in that window.

xwininfo: Window id: 0x401f35 (has no name)

  Absolute upper-left X: 252
  Absolute upper-left Y: 44
  Relative upper-left X: 252
  Relative upper-left Y: 44
  Width: 386
  Height: 101
  Depth: 24
  Visual Class: TrueColor
  Border width: 1
  Class: InputOutput
  Colormap: 0x20 (installed)
  Bit Gravity State: ForgetGravity
  Window Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
  Backing Store State: NotUseful
  Save Under State: no
  Map State: IsViewable

But that doesn't seem like useful information to me, except maybe the
Window-id field (0x401f35), which I don't know how to interpret.

It's making a zombie of me. ^_^

Any ideas how I can get rid of this spook?

.sSweetMarie

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