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Re: Need help with PATH variable (i3/debian buster)

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On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 11:21:54AM +0200, Benedikt Tuchen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I got some strange behavior with my PATH variable and maybe somebody
> here can help me with this.
> 
> When I use no display manager like lightdm, I start i3 via startx in
> the console. If I do this dmenu and rofi are using my personal $PATH
> variable. For example it includes "$HOME/.local/bin". But when I
> use a display manager, dmenu and rofi do no longer have my personal
> $PATH entries. How can I change this behavior?
> 
> I've tried to find a solution for this but didn't found one. Maybe
> someone here know exactly what to do.

The short (but sometimes inaccurate) answer: ~/.xsession --  this is
(very roughly) the X Session equivalent to your ~/.profile and its
ilk.

The longer answer: man Xsession (5). Depending on whether you use a
desktop environment (and on how badly it has brutalised your X setup),
you'll have to find out what is missing where.

Look around /etc/X11/Xsession.options and /etc/X11/Xsession.d/* --
there is the machinery which decides whether and how to load your
personal X session stuff in ~/.xsession.

Sigh. It /used/ to be simple.

Cheers
-- t

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Need help with PATH variable (i3/debian buster) Benedikt Tuchen <benedikt.tuchen@thinkbot.de> - 2020-07-30 11:40 +0200
  Re: Need help with PATH variable (i3/debian buster) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-30 12:00 +0200
    Re: Need help with PATH variable (i3/debian buster) Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-30 14:50 +0200
      Re: Need help with PATH variable (i3/debian buster) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-30 16:10 +0200
  Re: Need help with PATH variable (i3/debian buster) Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-30 14:50 +0200
    Re: Need help with PATH variable (i3/debian buster) Klaus Singvogel <deb-user-ml@singvogel.net> - 2020-07-30 16:00 +0200

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