For remote SSH sessions, it's the job of your shell to handle any on-logout scripting. The Bash shell typically runs ~/.bash_logout
.
For X sessions, the login manager controls on-logout scripting. File locations depend on which login manager is in use. The Xserver is not running when the on-logout script is executed, so don't include any programs in the script that try to access the display.
For Gnome, use /etc/gdm/PostSession/Default
for a system-wide default logout script (runs no matter who's logging out). Unlike Bash's logout script, I don't think there's a user-specific version of a GDM PostSession script.
XDM uses a Reset script is installed to /etc/X11/xdm/Xreset
.
For KDE (using KDM), you want the Reset
script. KDE3 uses /etc/kde3/kdm/Xreset
. The location may be specified in KDM's configuration file, /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc
, with the Reset
key.
WDM apparently uses a pair of Reset scripts: a per-display script at /etc/X11/wdm/Xreset_0
(for display :0
), and a global script at /etc/X11/wdm/Xreset
. The WDM configuration file is in /etc/X11/wdm/wdm-config
.
The file locations in this answer are from Debian packages. Ubuntu packages will generally use the same files, but other distributions may use alternate locations.