On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 06:20 -0600, Chris Dos wrote: > >> It seems the GDM does not get it's PATH statement from /etc/profile, or > >> pull the PATH > >> statement from .bash_profile when a WM is started. > > > > AFAIK this is intentional. The PATH is inherited from /etc/login.defs. > > The /etc/profile is a configuration file for bash, not for GDM. > > Thanks for the insight. I could not find where the path was parsed. It > might be good to > add a comment in one of the GDM startup files specifying where the PATH > statement is > parsed. Thanks again.
/usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf does mention this: # Default path to set. The profile scripts will likely override this value. DefaultPath=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games Would this be a good place to mention /etc/login.defs? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22
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