<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Package: gnome-shell<br>Version: 48.1-1<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">I can't change the PATH at GDM level so I can execute programs in my ~/bin folder. I can easily define other variables though. The problem is reported elsewhere and most recently on these pages:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/i2ybvc/cant_change_path_in_environmentd5/">https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/i2ybvc/cant_change_path_in_environmentd5/</a><br><a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/commit/349e6af855a1c1dbee9af3e5881e00b66482d155">https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/commit/349e6af855a1c1dbee9af3e5881e00b66482d155</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">I have changed these files: ~/.bashrc, ~/.pam_environment, ~/etc/environment. Their contents are:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">~/.bashrc : </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">~/.pam_environment</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">PATH        OVERRIDE=${HOME}/bin:${HOME}/.local/bin:${PATH}<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">/etc/environment</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">PATH=/home/farid/.local/bin:$PATH<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">and at my Bash prompt in Gnome-terminal I get:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">~$ /usr/lib/systemd/user-environment-generators/30-systemd-environment-d-generator <br>GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge:gail:atk-bridge<br>QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1<br>PATH=/home/farid/.local/bin:/home/farid/.local/bin:/home/farid/.local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games<br>PYTHONSTARTUP=/home/farid/.python_startup<br>GCC_COLORS="error=01;31:warning=01;35:note=01;36:caret=01;32:locus=01:quote=01"<br>VISUAL="vi EDITOR=vi SYSTEMD_EDITOR=vi"<br>TEXMFHOME=/home/farid/.texmf<br>TEXMFCNF=/home/farid/.texmf/web2c:/home/farid/.texmf/web2c:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br>~$ systemctl --user show-environment<br>HOME=/home/farid<br>LANG=en_US.UTF-8<br>LANGUAGE=en_US:en<br>LOGNAME=farid<br>PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games<br>SHELL=/bin/bash<br>USER=farid<br>XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000<br>GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge<br>QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1<br>PYTHONSTARTUP=/home/farid/.python_startup<br>GCC_COLORS=$'error=01;31:warning=01;35:note=01;36:caret=01;32:locus=01:quote=01'<br>VISUAL=vi<br>TEXMFHOME=/home/farid/.texmf<br>TEXMFCNF=/home/farid/.texmf/web2c:<br>COLORTERM=truecolor<br>DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus<br>DESKTOP_SESSION=gnome<br>DISPLAY=:0<br>EDITOR=vi<br>GDMSESSION=gnome<br>GDM_LANG=en_US.UTF-8<br>GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=this-is-deprecated<br>GNOME_TERMINAL_SCREEN=/org/gnome/Terminal/screen/64064a9f_0993_4156_8610_1df4e8733ddb<br>GNOME_TERMINAL_SERVICE=:1.92<br>GPG_AGENT_INFO=/run/user/1000/gnupg/S.gpg-agent:0:1<br>GPG_TTY=/dev/pts/0<br>GROFF_NO_SGR=1<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">I am not sure if it's related to systemd or Gnome-shell. But in the reddit link I shared above, a person says the problem is not present in KDE.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">I expect that when I press alt+f2 and type an executable name which is present in ~/.local/bin/ to be executed. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">thanks</div></div>