On Mon 11 Feb 2019 at 09:53:39 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 04:22:44PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 02/10/2019 03:42 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > >On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 02:57:22PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > >[...] > > > > > >>Unless someone can point to a single location to modify that: > > >> 1. modify existing user(s) > > >> 2. have effect for ALL future users > > >> 3. survive updating to future releases > > >>I'll drop the issue. > > >>Thanks all. > > > > > >Did you ever give consideration to the stuff in /etc/X11/xsession.d? > > > > Yes. > > Also looked at other X11 links suggested by drilling down thru links > > to links ... > > > > Having just been taught the value of "grep" I just did > > "grep -r path /etc/X11" and "grep -r PATH /etc/X11" to see if I had > > missed anything. Hadn't. > > It's not (necessarily) about a PATH being there. Rather about you > putting one there, usually in the form: > > PATH="/my/preferred/path:$PATH > > (substitute as appropriate). Or append your preferred paths if you > want the usual suspects (/bin, /usr/bin, etc.) to take precedence. > Or both.
Well, I had expected that there might be some defaults set somewhere in a text file (or as comments) … > > >What's in that directory (on your machine)? > > > > >root@fromdell:/home/richard# ls /etc/X11/Xsession.d > > >20dbus_xdg-runtime 50x11-common_determine-startup 90gpg-agent > > >20vdpau-va-gl 55mate-session_materc 90qt-a11y > > >20x11-common_process-args 60xbrlapi > > >90x11-common_ssh-agent > > >30x11-common_xresources 60xdg-user-dirs-update > > >95dbus_update-activation-env > > >35x11-common_xhost-local 75dbus_dbus-launch > > >99mate-environment > > >40x11-common_xsessionrc 90atk-adaptor 99x11-common_start > > Looks pretty standard. Now do try putting a new file into Xsession.d > containing a line as suggested above and named, e.g. "97richards-path" > or something similar (92 means it happens near the end, the rest > is just for you to remember the perpetrator). Decorate it with some > comments. Remember, it's shell text which is "sourced" (i.e. included > as part, not executed in a subshell) by some bigger thing. > > > >root@fromdell:/home/richard# > > > > [https://launchpadlibrarian.net/94971962/01_set-default-path.patch] > > and [https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/04/msg00006.html] > > indicate that at one time the behavior was hard coded into lightdm. > > I'll believe that when I see it. I don't think they bypass the X11 > session mechanism. … but perhaps not. I notice that the patch is for else clauses, which could indicate fallback PATHs when nothing else is found. And these patches do look like they're in the code: $ strings /tmp/lightdm/usr/sbin/lightdm | grep /bin: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games $ Cheers, David.
