Run script after switching user account "to the same account"

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Published on 2012-08-29T21:00:57Z Indexed on 2012/08/29 21:51 UTC
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In Ubuntu, when I click on Switch User Account... and then choose the same account to log in (for example if my name is John Smith, I click on switch user account and then log into the John Smith account again), how can I run a script after that?

(I know, that I can run a script after "first" login by putting it in /etc/profile file, but this script is not executed again when I choose switch user account and then immediately log in back to the same account.)

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