Re: Setting default $PATH for all users

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

On 02/10/2019 05:00 PM, Lee wrote:
> On 2/10/19, Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 02:57:22PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > I used "grep -r /usr/local/games /etc" which yielded "/etc/login.defs"
> > > and
> > > "/etc/profile". Editing those two files had no effect.
> >
> > How are you determining that changes to /etc/profile had no effect?
> > Because changes there (or in files in /etc/profile.d/) should affect all
> > new shels that you launch. Example:
> >
> > $ cat /etc/profile.d/extrapath.sh
> > export PATH=$PATH:/foo
> >
> > Then I open a new shell and echo $PATH, /foo is in there.
> >
> > If that is not your experience, you are doing something wrong, or your
> > system is very broken.
>
> Or you're using xfce which seems to ignore .profile & .bash_profile
> Creating an /etc/profile.d/extrapath.sh from your example didn't do
> anything for me.
>
> adding the line
> export PATH=$PATH:/foo
> to /etc/bash.bashrc however...
>
> followup question - why are the bash "login" dot files ignored if
> you're using xfce?

Perhaps 'cause I've never used xfce?
For the record I'm using MATE as DE and lightdm as DM.

> Regards,
> Lee