Re: PATH in X?

[Bill Benedetto <bbenedetto@goodyear.com>]

>>> James Stone writes:

  James> after a dist-upgrade to unstable, I seem to have lost my
  James> changes to the PATH variable in X when running gdm and
  James> then gnome or KDE.  This is with root and user accounts.
  James> My preferred PATH is still in /etc/profile and works in
  James> tty console but when I start X and reun xterm (or
  James> whatever) the PATH variable has been reset to defaults.
  James> I have spent about 2 hours hunting for where the PATH
  James> variable is redefined but to no avail.. Would be
  James> grateful for some help.  (I have tried changing the PATH
  James> in login.defs and some other places in /etc/ also
  James> creating a .profile file in my ~/ directory but none of
  James> these have worked).

Did you look in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf at the DefaultPath variable?
I *THINK* that is where the PATH gets set.

I thought you could overwrite it in your .cshrc/.bashrc, though...

- Bill
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