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Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script

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On Mon, 2016-03-21 at 18:03 +0000, Russell Gadd wrote:
> The bash login script I have added in to my startup programs does
> not 
> recognise /home/user/bin as part of the path, whereas it used to when
> I 
> was running Linux Mint (I'm a recent refugee). I've got 
> PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" in ~/.bashrc and also in ~/.profile, together 
> with a ~/.bash_profile which sources ~/.profile. I've no idea
> whether 
> all these are necessary - they do work to search my bin in a script
> run 
> in the Mate terminal but not in the login script. It's not a big deal
> as 
> I can prepend the absolute path in the login script, although I
> assume 
> this means also doing it in sourced scripts within the login script,
> so 
> I'd like to know if there's a clean way to set this up.

If you are using gdm to launch X, /etc/gdm3/Xsession sources ~/.profile
other display managers probably do something similar.

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User's bin path not recognised in login script Russell Gadd <russ.mail.lists@gmail.com> - 2016-03-21 19:20 +0100
  Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> - 2016-03-21 19:30 +0100
  Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-03-22 03:40 +0100
    Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script Russell Gadd <russ.mail.lists@gmail.com> - 2016-03-22 19:40 +0100
      Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2016-03-22 20:00 +0100
        Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script Russell Gadd <russ.mail.lists@gmail.com> - 2016-03-22 23:50 +0100
          Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2016-03-23 03:50 +0100
          Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-03-24 01:30 +0100
            Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2016-03-24 01:40 +0100
            Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script Russell Gadd <russ.mail.lists@gmail.com> - 2016-03-24 09:30 +0100
      Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script Seeker <seeker5528@comcast.net> - 2016-03-22 21:20 +0100
        Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script Russell Gadd <russ.mail.lists@gmail.com> - 2016-03-22 23:50 +0100
      Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script Seeker <seeker5528@comcast.net> - 2016-03-22 22:10 +0100
      Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script Seeker <seeker5528@comcast.net> - 2016-03-22 22:30 +0100
      Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script seeker5528@comcast.net - 2016-03-22 22:50 +0100
        Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-03-23 00:00 +0100

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