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Re: Setting default $PATH for all users

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On 02/10/2019 03:42 PM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 02:57:22PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> Unless someone can point to a single location to modify that:
>>    1. modify existing user(s)
>>    2. have effect for ALL future users
>>    3. survive updating to future releases
>> I'll drop the issue.
>> Thanks all.
> 
> Did you ever give consideration to the stuff in /etc/X11/xsession.d?

Yes.
Also looked at other X11 links suggested by drilling down thru links to 
links ...

Having just been taught the value of "grep" I just did
"grep -r path /etc/X11" and "grep -r PATH /etc/X11" to see if I had 
missed anything. Hadn't.

> 
> What's in that directory (on your machine)?

>  
> root@fromdell:/home/richard# ls /etc/X11/Xsession.d
> 20dbus_xdg-runtime	   50x11-common_determine-startup  90gpg-agent
> 20vdpau-va-gl		   55mate-session_materc	   90qt-a11y
> 20x11-common_process-args  60xbrlapi			   90x11-common_ssh-agent
> 30x11-common_xresources    60xdg-user-dirs-update	   95dbus_update-activation-env
> 35x11-common_xhost-local   75dbus_dbus-launch		   99mate-environment
> 40x11-common_xsessionrc    90atk-adaptor		   99x11-common_start
> root@fromdell:/home/richard# 

[https://launchpadlibrarian.net/94971962/01_set-default-path.patch] and 
[https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/04/msg00006.html] indicate 
that at one time the behavior was hard coded into lightdm.


> 
> Cheers
> -- t
> 

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Setting default $PATH for all users Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-02-08 14:20 +0100
  Re: Setting default $PATH for all users Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2019-02-08 14:30 +0100
    Re: Setting default $PATH for all users <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-02-08 14:40 +0100
      Re: Setting default $PATH for all users Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-02-08 16:00 +0100
        Re: Setting default $PATH for all users Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-02-08 16:10 +0100
          Re: Setting default $PATH for all users David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-11 04:10 +0100
            Re: Setting default $PATH for all users <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-02-11 10:00 +0100
              Re: Setting default $PATH for all users rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-02-11 13:50 +0100
                Re: Setting default $PATH for all users Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-02-11 14:10 +0100
                Re: Setting default $PATH for all users rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-02-11 18:10 +0100
                Re: Setting default $PATH for all users Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-02-11 18:30 +0100
                Re: Setting default $PATH for all users Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-02-11 18:40 +0100
                Re: Setting default $PATH for all users Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-02-11 18:50 +0100
                Re: Setting default $PATH for all users David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-11 21:00 +0100
        Re: Setting default $PATH for all users <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-02-08 16:40 +0100
  Re: Setting default $PATH for all users David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-08 20:10 +0100
    Re: Setting default $PATH for all users Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-02-10 22:00 +0100
      Re: Setting default $PATH for all users Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2019-02-10 22:30 +0100
        Re: Setting default $PATH for all users Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-02-10 22:50 +0100
          Re: Setting default $PATH for all users Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2019-02-11 00:30 +0100
        Re: Setting default $PATH for all users Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2019-02-11 00:10 +0100
          Re: Setting default $PATH for all users Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-02-11 00:30 +0100
            Re: Setting default $PATH for all users Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2019-02-11 01:30 +0100
              Re: Setting default $PATH for all users Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-02-11 15:40 +0100
      Re: Setting default $PATH for all users <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-02-10 22:50 +0100
        Re: Setting default $PATH for all users Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-02-10 23:30 +0100
          Re: Setting default $PATH for all users <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-02-11 10:00 +0100
            Re: Setting default $PATH for all users David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-11 14:50 +0100
      Re: Setting default $PATH for all users David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-11 03:30 +0100

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