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Re: permanently add dir to $PATH

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On 2016-09-16, Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 10:01:39AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote:
>> The other problem is trying to permanently add $HOME/bin to the $PATH.
>> 
>> I have in .bash_profile
>> PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
>> export PATH
>> 
>> But every time I boot I have to manually add it again.
>
> This is probably because you are logging in with a display manager
> instead of ssh or a Linux console.  The display managers do not launch
> a login shell, so your login shell configuration files are never read.
>
> (This is why I never use a display manager.  Well, one of the reasons.)
>
> You need to identify which display manager you're using, and then try
> to figure out how to configure it as a user.  Good luck.  I've found
> that most of them have absolutely ZERO documentation about this.
>
>

gdm sources the login scripts, whereas lightdm does not. In the latter
case, do the necessary PATH munging in ~/.xsessionrc.

-- 

Liam

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permanently add dir to $PATH Tony Baldwin <tonybaldwin@gmx.com> - 2016-09-16 16:10 +0200
  Re: permanently add dir to $PATH Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-09-16 16:10 +0200
    Re: permanently add dir to $PATH Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2016-09-16 19:50 +0200
  Re: permanently add dir to $PATH "der.hans" <deb-user@LuftHans.com> - 2016-09-16 16:30 +0200

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