Netscape leaves zombie windows

[dbos at postoffice.pacbell.net]

dbos at postoffice.pacbell.net wrote:

> Dave Looney wrote:
>
> > ** Reply to message from DJA <djallen at cts.com> on Wed, 01 Aug 2001 00:06:34
> > -0700
> >
> > > In Gnome and Enlightenment, if you right click on a window's title bar
> > > you can select "Annihilate" from the drop down list. This will make the
> > > offending window disappear. I have never known it to fail as long as I
> > > have either keyboard or mouse input.
> >
> > It does not necessarily kill all the offending processes completely, however.
> > E.g. killing a window running a graphical java program may leave a thread for the
> > shell launch script and one or more java threads.  I've also seen netscape
> > threads left after right clicking and making the window go "poof".  And of
> > course you are very likely to leave the netscape lock file untouched.
> >
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