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  13      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  21       <div class="title">After 6 years of waiting, the Xreset.d feature is implemented</div>
  22       <div class="date"> 6th March 2010</div>
  23       <div class="body"><p>6 years ago, as part of the Debian Edu development I am involved
  24 in, I asked for a hook in the kdm and gdm setup to run scripts as root
  25 when the user log out.  A bug was submitted against the xfree86-common
  26 package in 2004 (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/230422">#230422</a>),
  27 and revisited every time Debian Edu was working on a new release.
  28 Today, this finally paid off.</p>
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  30 <p>The framework for this feature was today commited to the git
  31 repositry for the xorg package, and the git repository for xdm has
  32 been updated to use this framework.  Next on my agenda is to make sure
  33 kdm and gdm also add code to use this framework.</p>
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  35 <p>In Debian Edu, we want to ability to run commands as root when the
  36 user log out, to get rid of runaway processes and do general cleanup
  37 after a user.  With this framework in place, we finally can do that in
  38 a generic way that work with all display managers using this
  39 framework.  My goal is to get all display managers in Debian use it,
  40 similar to how they use the Xsession.d framework today.<p>
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