On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 09:26:19PM +0000, tetrahe...@danwin1210.me wrote:
> I have some custom additions to my $PATH. They're defined in ~/.profile and
> they are correctly loaded when I log in from a text console.
>
> When I log in to X (cwm) and open a terminal window, $PATH does not contain
> the entries.
>
> I tried `chmod +x` on my .profile but that didn't help.
>
> Both the text console and the X terminal window are using ksh.
>
> When I call `/bin/ksh -l` then the resulting shell contains the correct
> additions to $PATH.
>
> It looks like the custom $PATH is not being passed from the login shell on
> downwards, since ~/.profile is only read by a login shell.
>
> ~/.kshrc is (according to ksh(1)) read by every spawning shell, but I don't
> see any documentation or examples on the Internet where someone defined
> their $PATH in ~/.kshrc ...
>
> What's the correct way to set $PATH and have it stick no matter where and
> when the shell is spawned?
If you're using a display manager (xenodm or whatever), you've to
include your .profile in your session login script (X equivalent of
shell's ~/.profile concept), so the envoronment (and other global
login settings) from your .profile become visible to all X programs,
not only xterm. For instance put:
. ~/.profile
at the beginning of our ~/.xsession
If you're using xinit(1), your ~/.profile is already loaded by
the login shell.
