On 23/11/2023 21:16, Greg Wooledge wrote:
For this setup, I'd go with the ~/.xsessionrc file. Create the
file/home/gene/.xsessionrc and put this in it:
PATH=$HOME/bin:$HOME/AppImages:$PATH
SDDM (default for KDE and I assume it is Gene's case) reads ~/.profile that contains the following
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# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi
# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/.local/bin" ] ; then
PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
fi
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so perhaps it is enough to add similar blocks for other custom
directories. In Ubuntu LightDM reads this file as well, but in Debian it
is not so by default.