running scripts while login and logout

[Toby Kelsey]

> On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 06:52 -0800, L.V.Gandhi wrote:

>>I wanted a script to be run as user while (s)he logs out.

It's odd that gdm and GNOME do not seem to have a mechanism for this.

My suggestion is that you write a script which waits for gnome-session to exit
and then runs your commands. Something like

=== snip ===
#! /bin/bash
gnomepid=$(ps -C gnome-session -o pid=)
wait $gnomepid
source ${HOME}/.gnome-logout
== snip ===

Make it executable and add it to your session startup programs
 (System > Preferences > Sessions: Startup programs).

Toby