[SOLVED]lightdm messes up $PATH?

damo · 2015-04-07 19:39:16

I've just switched from slim to lightdm and found my ~/bin scripts weren't working. "echo $PATH" now doesn't show my user's bin.
Exporting PATH in .bashrc doesn't stick between sessions.
Anyone else having this problem, or have I messed something up somewhere?

Similar problem on the Arch forum here

@hhh's thread here might have an answer, but before I delve too deeply, does anyone have a quick fix?

EDIT: Solution

pvsage wrote:

hhh wrote:
You can add it to .xsessionrc...
if [ -d $HOME/bin ]; then
    export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi
From what I've read, this is The Debian Way (TM) to do it, and SLiM was doing it wrong by sourcing .bashrc. Pretty sure we'll include this in .xsessionrc in /etc/skel in the BunsenLabs live images.

Last edited by damo (2015-04-08 13:18:26)

tknomanzr · 2015-04-07 19:55:32

Lightdm does not source .bashrc. We had a discussion about this sometime ago. I'll have to poke around and see if I can find the discussion.

hhh · 2015-04-07 19:55:48

It shouldn't have anything to do with update-alternatives. Is ~/.profile present and does it contain this? ...

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
    PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi

hhh · 2015-04-07 19:58:09

You can add it to .xsessionrc...

if [ -d $HOME/bin ]; then
    export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi

tknomanzr · 2015-04-07 19:59:08

Thanks @hhh! I was hunting because I couldn't remember all the details of that discussion.

hhh · 2015-04-07 20:00:29

Bug marked WONTFIX...
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … bug=636108

tknomanzr · 2015-04-07 20:00:42

Anyway, here's the link to it.
http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=39135

Sector11 · 2015-04-07 20:29:11

hhh wrote:

Bug marked WONTFIX...
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … bug=636108

That sucks.

And yes, I noticed this as well.

pvsage · 2015-04-07 20:37:59

hhh wrote:

You can add it to .xsessionrc...
if [ -d $HOME/bin ]; then
    export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi

From what I've read, this is The Debian Way (TM) to do it, and SLiM was doing it wrong by sourcing .bashrc. Pretty sure we'll include this in .xsessionrc in /etc/skel in the BunsenLabs live images.

Sector11 · 2015-04-07 20:53:49

hhh wrote:

You can add it to .xsessionrc...
if [ -d $HOME/bin ]; then
    export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi

I added that ... it works. Bash scripts in ~/bin are working again.

damo · 2015-04-07 21:07:23

pvsage wrote:

hhh wrote:
You can add it to .xsessionrc...
if [ -d $HOME/bin ]; then
    export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi
From what I've read, this is The Debian Way (TM) to do it, and SLiM was doing it wrong by sourcing .bashrc. Pretty sure we'll include this in .xsessionrc in /etc/skel in the BunsenLabs live images.

That is what I was figuring, but I thought I'd ask before messing around too much

Thanks all {)

Ozitraveller · 2015-04-09 00:14:36

I checked jessie RC2 and it has ~/.profile file

# ~/.profile: executed by the command interpreter for login shells.
# This file is not read by bash(1), if ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login
# exists.
# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for examples.
# the files are located in the bash-doc package.

# the default umask is set in /etc/profile; for setting the umask
# for ssh logins, install and configure the libpam-umask package.
#umask 022

# if running bash
if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then
    # include .bashrc if it exists
    if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then
    . "$HOME/.bashrc"
    fi
fi

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
    PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi

There's no .xsessionrc file.

hhh · 2015-04-09 01:06:29

Ozitraveller wrote:

There's no .xsessionrc file.

That's right, just create it...

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
    PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi

Admittedly, it's not well documented. man startx doesn't even refer to it.

hhh · 2015-04-09 01:14:18

Ah, see man xsession under "Supplied Scripts"...

/etc/X11/Xsession.d/40x11-common_xsessionrc
Source global environment variables.  This  script  will  source
anything  in  $HOME/.xsessionrc  if  the  file  is present. This
allows the user to set global environment variables for their  X
session, such as locale information..

Last edited by hhh (2015-04-09 01:16:29)

Ozitraveller · 2015-04-09 02:12:35

I don't have ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login so the ~/.profile should work I assume.

Last edited by Ozitraveller (2015-04-09 03:54:08)

hhh · 2015-04-09 02:34:44

I guess you didn't read the thread or your not using lightdm.

Ozitraveller · 2015-04-09 03:55:22

Sorry, yes you are correct.

Jessie doesn't have a ~/bin directory, so naturally, they won't care about this.

pvsage · 2015-04-09 05:41:10

^ Waldorf will have a ~/bin directory, primarily because that's where the Contemplative Boss (me) puts his scripts.

tknomanzr · 2015-04-09 14:53:42

I create a ~/bin folder for all the Live images I have built. I have too many personal scripts to not have one.

damo · 2015-04-09 15:39:16

pvsage wrote:

^ Waldorf will have a ~/bin directory, primarily because that's where the Contemplative Boss (me) puts his scripts.

Was it you who wrote the "@script" script, which I use all the time?

pvsage · 2015-04-09 19:32:15

^ No, that was not I. Most of my scripts are just avconv fragments.

DogMatix · 2015-05-06 00:05:37

I found this exact same problem after installing lightdm on my Jessie/Bunsen DIY installation. After some head scratching found this thread and post #4 was the fix.

Thanks.

CrunchBang Linux

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