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

[john]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Scott Balneaves
<sbalneav at legalaid.mb.ca> wrote:
> 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

Thank you Scott. I'll try the rc option and re-roll my images.

 And, of course, I will endeavor to practice the aforementioned virtues!

Cheers!

John