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PostPosted: Sat Sep 14, 2013 12:04 am    Post subject: [SOLVED] gmrun ignores $PATH Reply with quote

Hello everyone,
recently this problem appeared on my laptop. I have some scripts in my ~/.bin/ directory. This directory is on beginning of my $PATH so gmrun used to run them with no problem, but now it complains. Look at this:

Code:
$[FrostyX  ~]-> echo $PATH
/home/frostyx/.bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.7.3:/usr/games/bin


Code:
$[FrostyX  ~]-> pwd
/home/frostyx
$[FrostyX  ~]-> foo
That's my foo!


But in gmrun
Code:
foo

prints ERROR: No such file or directory

Trust me, that foo file exists
Code:
$[FrostyX  ~]-> ls -l ~/.bin/ |grep foo
-rwxr-xr-x 1 frostyx frostyx     34 Sep 14 01:52 foo


Can you please help me fix it?
Thank you, FrostyX


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PostPosted: Sat Sep 14, 2013 6:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

1) When did this start happening?

2) What changed?
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 14, 2013 1:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I didnt know if it might be related with slim, but now I know it.

Few days ago I started using slim instead of startx. There is my configuration

Code:
$[FrostyX  ~]-> ls -l .xsession
lrwxrwxrwx 1 frostyx frostyx 24 Sep 10 01:27 .xsession -> /etc/X11/Sessions/xmonad


I know there shouldn't be ck-launch-session when using slim, but mounting disks, network and these stuff in thunar didnt work, so ..

Code:
$[FrostyX  ~]-> cat .xsession
#!/bin/sh
#/usr/bin/xmonad


#autostart=$HOME/.xmonad/autostart.sh
#exec sh -c ". $autostart; exec /usr/bin/xmonad"


wm="xmonad"
autostart=$HOME/.xmonad/autostart.sh
exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session sh -c ". $autostart; exec $wm"


When I do /etc/init.d/xdm stop and startx then $PATH in gmrun works fine. When I do startx, my .xinitrc is used.

Code:
$[FrostyX  ~]-> cat .xinitrc
#!/bin/bash


#wm="awesome"
wm="xmonad"


if [ $wm == "xmonad" ]; then
   #~/.xmonad/autostart.sh &
   autostart=$HOME/.xmonad/autostart.sh
else
   autostart=/dev/null
fi

exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session sh -c ". $autostart; exec $wm"
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 14, 2013 3:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Where does your path get set for ~/.bin? It can be set from any of a number of places.

From what you are saying, it sounds like ~/.bin is being set from a place that starts from a console login, but not from an xdm login. Does that make sense?
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 14, 2013 3:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think it makes sense. I set my $PATH in my .bashrc

Code:
$[FrostyX  ~]-> cat .bashrc |grep PATH
PATH=$HOME/.bin:$PATH
export PATH


When I use startx first I log into TTY (so .bashrc is "used"). When I use slim, init starts it cause I did
Code:
sudo rc-update add xdm default

so no .bashrc was used before slim started.

I thought it doesnt matter, cause result is the same - but probably it isnt.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 14, 2013 3:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You could put your path export in your ~/.xinitrc file, and have it run when you login.

I was looking at the slim manual, and it has the login_cmd option which, by default runs the .xinitrc file.

http://slim.berlios.de/manual.php

HTH
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 14, 2013 10:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You had right, but I put the $PATH settings into .xsession instead of .xinitrc. Now it works exactly how I want.

Thank you very much, Knute.

I am marking this topic as [Solved].
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 14, 2013 11:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You are very welcome. I'm glad that I could help.
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