cannot customize terminal PATH anywhere

[Igor Zakharov]

> Running XFCE 4.12 on Ubuntu 16.04 in vncserver. The PATH variable in any
> terminal is very short:
>
> /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
>
> I've tried overriding it everywhere:
> - the various *profile files in /etc, home and so on
> - /etc/environment
> - various *xinit* files in home and /etc
>
> Nothing seems to work. XFCE seems super-strict in overriding that
> variable. I can get it to work just fine in a text-mode ssh session to
> that system, but in a terminal running within XFCE the PATH variable is
> overriden every time.
>
> I'm mystified as to why this is, and how can I fix it.

Hi,

Have you tried ~/.bashrc? I believe this is what Ubuntu normally uses for that purpose.

Regards,
Igor