On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 16:56 -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > Likewise, if you log out, your Linux console screen is still readable > for the next user. And even if you clear the screen before you log > out, the next user can still hit Shift-Prior (aka Shift-PageUp) and see > some of your work. Well but a) that's something one would clearly see; it's not "hidden" from the user b) therefore we have now per default a .bash_logout which resets the screen.
> Who, in your opinion, should clear the scrollback buffer and the gpm > clipboard? .bash_logout? getty? As you say, scrollback buffer is usually cleared by .bash_logout and gpm should "simply" have a clipboard per authenticated user that is cleared when a user logs out of his last session, since even if it was kept _per user_ (which is not the case currently) it would be somehow unclean if it was still there on new logins after the user had logged out all sessions. Your X server also doesn't bring back your clipboard, when you re-login as the same user. Cheers, Chris.
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