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 ~/.profile files. See if they were modified. You can add those paths (~/bin, /usr/games) to one of those files: export PATH=$PATH:~/bin:/usr/games
I have included this line in my .bash_profile:
export PATH=“$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.
So I would look into how to make sure Wayland apps inherit your ~/.bashrc settings
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.
