Package: release-notes X-Debbugs-Cc: jlsan...@protonmail.com Severity: important
Starting non-GNOME wayland sessions through GDM leads to a user's PATH being set to /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin instead of /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games (from /etc/profile). Example: Starting sway or plasma-workspace-wayland through gdm and trying to launch lutris or gnome-chess only to find out that they won't start even though they are installed. It can take some time for a user to find out that the PATH environment variable is different. This is a regression in bookworm and can surprise users upgrading from bullseye. Possible workarounds are: Using a different display manager such as sddm or starting the wayland session through tty. I first discovered this bug after installing lutris a few months ago[0] and filed a few bug reports[1][2]. As bookworm is about to be released, I thought it may be worthwhile to document this unexpected behavior in its release notes. 0: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1028543 1: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=942131 2: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/issues/846
