[15926] in Athena Bugs
Re: sgi 8.1.16: /etc/athena/login/Xsession
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Tue May 5 22:55:57 1998
To: chad brown <yandros@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Craig Fields <cfields@MIT.EDU>, kcr@MIT.EDU, tbelton@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU,
rbasch@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [15925]
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 05 May 1998 22:55:52 -0400
<daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> (chad brown) writes:
> .desktop-steve-dallas won't disappear when Karl logs out because Karl
> has a custom .xsession file, and, being a smart, paranoid guy, he
> doesn't leave his authentication around after he's ready to log out.
> At least, that's what I seem to recall finding when I looked around
> when the same thing happened to me.
FWIW, my dotfiles behave similarly; I avoid the top-level clutter by
explicitly running
rm -f "$HOME/.desktop-`hostname | sed -e 's/\..*//'`"
in my .logout.
--
Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)