Re: permanently add dir to $PATH
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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