Re: Setting default $PATH for all users

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

On 02/10/2019 03:42 PM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 02:57:22PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Unless someone can point to a single location to modify that:
> >    1. modify existing user(s)
> >    2. have effect for ALL future users
> >    3. survive updating to future releases
> > I'll drop the issue.
> > Thanks all.
>
> Did you ever give consideration to the stuff in /etc/X11/xsession.d?

Yes.
Also looked at other X11 links suggested by drilling down thru links to 
links ...

Having just been taught the value of "grep" I just did
"grep -r path /etc/X11" and "grep -r PATH /etc/X11" to see if I had 
missed anything. Hadn't.

> What's in that directory (on your machine)?

>  
> root@fromdell:/home/richard# ls /etc/X11/Xsession.d
> 20dbus_xdg-runtime	   50x11-common_determine-startup  90gpg-agent
> 20vdpau-va-gl		   55mate-session_materc	   90qt-a11y
> 20x11-common_process-args  60xbrlapi			   90x11-common_ssh-agent
> 30x11-common_xresources    60xdg-user-dirs-update	   95dbus_update-activation-env
> 35x11-common_xhost-local   75dbus_dbus-launch		   99mate-environment
> 40x11-common_xsessionrc    90atk-adaptor		   99x11-common_start
> root@fromdell:/home/richard# 

[https://launchpadlibrarian.net/94971962/01_set-default-path.patch] and 
[https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/04/msg00006.html] indicate 
that at one time the behavior was hard coded into lightdm.


> Cheers
> -- t