[LightDM] User login/logout scripts

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at debian.org
Fri Dec 21 13:09:52 PST 2012


On ven., 2012-12-21 at 15:53 +0000, Jaap Winius wrote:
> Indeed. I asked last year if Xfce had support for a system-wide
> logout 
> script, but apparently not. It would be great if Xfce could run such
> a 
> script as the user.

Did you try to report that on bugzilla.xfce.org? Now would be a good
time, considering 4.12 is currently in development mode.
> 
> My session wrapper script, /etc/X11/Xsession, looks like a good way
> to 
> run a system-wide login script: just drop it in
> the /etc/X11/Xsession.d/ 
> directory.

You can use ~/.xsessionrc for the login stuff (although it's then under
control of the user).

>  It also has a /etc/X11/Xreset.d/ directory for logout scripts; 
> these are executed as root, but at least $USER is available.

Or put it after 90x11 in /etc/X11/Xsession.d? That way, it will be
executed as $USER *after* the user session has finished.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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