would be nice to add ~/bin to the default PATH
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gdm (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
pam (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The Alt-F2 "Run Application" dialog runs applications. However, it seems to have a different notion of what the path is to my shells; more specifically, it doesn't include ~/bin, which I have added to the path in both .bash_profile and .bashrc.
So I can't run my Firefox starter script, ~/bin/ff, by pressing Alt-F2 and typing "ff".
This URL:
http://
has a massively long discussion with at least ten ways to solve the problem. I have no idea which one is best, or "approved", or won't break any upgrades or cause conflicts.
In Dapper, I solved it by putting the following into .gnomerc:
export PATH=$PATH:~/bin
That line is still there, but doesn't seem to be doing the trick any more.
Can someone who understands this stuff please make this work by default? :-)
Related branches
Changed in gnome-panel: | |
assignee: | nobody → desktop-bugs |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | Unconfirmed → Confirmed |
What version of ubuntu do you use? Using .gnomerc looks like the right way to do. You can also try to edit /etc/environment