adapted $PATH not available for GUI

[houghi at houghi.org]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 01:06:08PM +0000, Chris Neveu wrote:
> Adding the path in ~/.xsessionrc should accomplish what you want.

Thanks. That works and I have added it to /etc/skel so when I make a new
(test) user, I will have it already.

Any idea why /etc/profile or any of the others are not picked up? From
what I can deduct, there are two places that the PATH settings are done.
One for CLI and one for GUI, which is odd and prone to security issues and
errors.

So where does XFCE (or is it  get the PATH settings from? From what I
understand is that XFCE takes it parameters from X and e.g. ~/.xsessionrc
X takes the parameters from lightdm and some other files.
lightdm takes them from the init.

So at what point does the PATH enter the stream of parameters and where
does it read that from? It seems not to be coming from any of the other
files. /etc/profile works on tty1, so there is no syntax error.

houghi
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