Not sure about clearing it on logout, but i expect clearing it on login will do? System>Prefs>Sessions Add>Command: rm -fr $HOME/* ; cp /etc/skel/* $HOME/ That deletes everyhting in the come dir and then copies the default home dir <div class="gmail_quote">2009/1/29 Rob Beard <<a href="mailto:rob@esdelle.co.uk">rob@esdelle.co.uk</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi folks, I was wondering if anyone knew how to clear out the home directory on Ubuntu when a user logs out? Basically what I to achieve is have a script run to automatically when a user logs out of their Gnome session so it resets everything back to the default.  I've tried putting a couple of commands into .bash_logout to see it that works but it doesn't seem to run on a Gnome session logout. I just wondered if anyone knew how I could specify a script to run at logout for specific users? Ta, Rob -- <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a> </blockquote></div>