Re: How to make GUI applications inherit PATH

[Chris Elvidge]

On 09/03/2021 12:37 pm, Fernando Basso wrote:
> I am creating a launcher in Xfce4 to run `gvim -f'. When I click the
> launcher, gvim opens and complains it cannot find nodejs, which I
> install through nvm (node version manager), which is added to `PATH' in
> `~/.bashrc'.
>
> I tried creating a wrapper script, something like this:
>
>         #!/usr/bin/env -S bash --login
>         gvim -f "$@"
>
> It still doesn't pass `PATH' as configured in my `~/.bashrc' to gvim. (I
> passed `--login' because according to `man bash' it would cause
> `~/.bashrc' to be read).
>
> If I run that wrapper from the terminal (with bash as the shell), then
> it works (I can `:echo $PATH' from gvim and see all my configured
> paths), just like if I had run `gvim -f' directly. If I run that wrapper
> script from gmrun or xfce4-appfinder then again `PATH' inside gvim
> contains only some default system directories and not my configured
> paths.
>
> I have noticed something similar to Zim Wiki, which seems to inherit my
> shell exported stuff if opened from the terminal, but not if opened from
> some GUI launcher.
>
> If these applications inherit the `PATH' when I run them directly from
> the terminal, I guess it should work from wrapper scripts if written
> correctly.
>
> So my question is how could I create a bash wrapper script that would
> cause these GUI apps to inherit exported `PATH' from my bash config
> files?

Have you exported the PATH variable in .bashrc?

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Chris Elvidge
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