On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 11:21:54AM +0200, Benedikt Tuchen wrote: > Hello, > > I got some strange behavior with my PATH variable and maybe somebody > here can help me with this. > > When I use no display manager like lightdm, I start i3 via startx in > the console. If I do this dmenu and rofi are using my personal $PATH > variable. For example it includes "$HOME/.local/bin". But when I > use a display manager, dmenu and rofi do no longer have my personal > $PATH entries. How can I change this behavior? > > I've tried to find a solution for this but didn't found one. Maybe > someone here know exactly what to do. The short (but sometimes inaccurate) answer: ~/.xsession -- this is (very roughly) the X Session equivalent to your ~/.profile and its ilk. The longer answer: man Xsession (5). Depending on whether you use a desktop environment (and on how badly it has brutalised your X setup), you'll have to find out what is missing where. Look around /etc/X11/Xsession.options and /etc/X11/Xsession.d/* -- there is the machinery which decides whether and how to load your personal X session stuff in ~/.xsession. Sigh. It /used/ to be simple. Cheers -- t
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