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. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5
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