Sudden strangeness in PATH
I have suddenly found that /usr/games has disappeared off my path. Not only that but my normal otherwise but sudo enabled user seems to have a superuser's path?
rhudson@adam:~$ echo $PATH /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
rhudson@adam:~$ id -u 1000
What would have changed suddenly? It was not like this yesterday. kpat is in /usr/games and I was able to launch it from task manager yesterday, but not today.
I have rebooted twice so far. I can run kpat by opening it from Dolphin.
I don't want to have to re-install : ^ (
You're going to have to remember what did you change. Is this bookworm? Things don't just change themselves in Stable
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And I have played Minecraft and watched Youtube and Freetube.
When I noticed this happening (by trying to launch kpat this morning) I went to look at /etc/profile and added /etc/games to the id=0 part of the path setting and that did not help any so I removed it again. - something is setting the path to SU's path along the way but I don't know what.
P. S. It seems my path is also missing my normal ~/bin (Where I keep a backup script)
Here is the problem.
I had been running X before last night. I switched to Wayland just before knocking off. When I started again today I was now running Wayland. I just now switched back to X and now my icon for kpat works properly.
Is there some issue with the Icons-Only Task Manager under Wayland?
I was going back to Wayland because it seems important Distros are dropping X. I should be running under Wayland because at some point I will have to. I am back on X for now.
Check your ~/.bash_profile,
/.bashrc, and/bin:/usr/games/.profile files. See if they were modified. You can add those paths (/bin, /usr/games) to one of those files: export PATH=$PATH:I have included this line in my .bash_profile:
export PATH="$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games"
In the very last line.
My PATH still looks like this:
rhudson@adam:~$ echo $PATH /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
What could be changing my path after .bash_profile gets its say?
I am also adding it now to the last line of .bashrc
I have rebooted and now my path seems correct:
rhudson@adam:~$ echo $PATH /home/rhudson/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
I can type "kpat" at the command line and it launches.
But when I click the icon in the task manager it still says it can't find the program 'kpat'
Depending on how you're starting X (assuming X and not Wayland), you could add a line to your ~/.xprofile (or .xsession or .xinitrc) with ". ~/.bashrc" to make sure the path gets set before launching X.
The issue shows up under Wayland, not X. With X everything is working ok. I have yet to try a different Task Manager under Wayland though.
I took a moment to swich back to wayland, and tried "Task Manager" (I was using "Icons only Task Manager") both are showing this issue which is resolved by switching back to X.
So I would look into how to make sure Wayland apps inherit your ~/.bashrc settings