Paths and commands

[John Coppens]

On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:22:41 -0800
"Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:

> > 1) Which path is used by xfce for its commands? If I type 'glade' in a
> > terminal, it starts, but not in the menu xfce4 - there I have to
> > specify the complete path.
> 
> This is kinda tricky.  Your terminal will set the PATH environment
> variable depending on whether or not it runs a login shell, which
> determines which startup files (some combination of .bashrc,
> .bash_profile, .profile, etc., assuming bash).  Your login manager, and
> therefore X, and therefore Xfce, and therefore the run dialog, will pick
> up whatever environment was available whenever the login manager was
> started.  If the login manager invokes a shell before launching X or
> Xfce, that further complicates things.

Thanks. I'll try to trace just where the paths are constructed, and try
to put the missing ones as early as possible.

John