REALLY? Nobody knows?? was Re: Is there an equivelent to Xsession.d for logout?

[Scott Balneaves]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 09:12:03AM -0800, john wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Surely somebody on the dev list must have an answer or at least a
> pointer. How does X do cleanup when the user logs off? Could a script
> be called from there? Or from the ssh process the user logs in under?
> I really want to figure this out, I hope somebody can help.

The Xsession(1) script is usually called, but it doesn't have any cleanup.
When gnome-session terminates, that's usually it.

The LDM display manager itself has the ability to call shutdown scripts.  You
can find information on this at:

http://www.ltsp.org/~sbalneav/LTSPManual.html#id2537250

Not all of us read this list on a daily basis.  Patience, virtue, etc.

Scott

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