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bubbleguuum

krunner and PATH

I'm desesperatly trying to have krunner to recognize commands in additional PATH entries, namely ~/bin.

I created ~/.config/plasma-workspace/env/path.sh with export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH but krunner refuses to run any command that is in ~/bin. It only see commands that are in the standard PATH. Any idea on how to fix this ?

Posted Jan 9, 2020, 5:21 PM UTC

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skeleton334•

Remove the extension from the script/binary you want to run: Script.sh -> Script

The command I used is this: PATH="/home/$USER/bin/:/bin" krunner

Of course this is if you want to open krunner from the terminal with those paths.

Otherwise you don't have to make any changes to the path.sh file

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bubbleguuumOP•

Yes that works, by pre-launching krunner with the proper PATH. Still does not explain how to have Plasma (without this workaround) launch krunner with Alt+F2 with proper environment variables...

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skeleton334•

It works for me(without pre launching it).

I wrote this in the plasma-workspace/env script:

#!/bin/bash
export PATH="/home/$USER/bin/:/bin"

Then you have to log out and login.

Maybe you didn't make it executable?

https://i.imgur.com/GQw1xoO.png

Can yuo write in a new terminal window: echo $PATH

Alternatively, try adding the command to your .bashrc, even if I don't think it works (I had already tried)

echo 'export PATH="/home/$USER/bin/:/bin"' >> ~/.bashrc

Then log out and login.

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bubbleguuumOP•

I finally found out why I was missing some env vars (specified in ~/.profile) in the Plasma session: it was caused by not using a Display Manager (eg SDDM) but login via the console and starting Xorg with startx itself launching startplasma-x11. In that case, some login shell env variables (including PATH) are not transmitted to the Plasma session for some reason...

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