So, in order to avoid typing “flatpak run”, every time I need to run a flatpak program from the terminal, to have gui programs installed using nix appear in my applications menu(rofi, in this case), and to avoid typing the entire path to my .local/bin, I had added the following lines to my .profile:

set PATH so it includes user’s private bin if it exists

if [ -d “$HOME/bin” ] ; then export PATH=“$HOME/bin:$PATH” fi

set PATH so it includes user’s private bin if it exists

if [ -d “$HOME/.local/bin” ] ; then export PATH=“$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH” fi

for desktop entries for packages installed using Nix

export XDG_DATA_DIRS=“/home/guest/.nix-profile/share:$XDG_DATA_DIRS”

set PATH so it includes user’s private bin if it exists

if [ -d “/var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin” ] ; then export PATH=“/var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin:$PATH” fi

if [ -d “~/.local/share/flatpak/exports/bin” ] ; then export PATH=“~/.local/share/flatpak/exports/bin:$PATH” fi

However, for some weird reason, I cannot take advantage of the above lines unless I am in a tmux session or I explicitly type the following command:

source .profile

Any ideas on how to fix this?

EDIT: Adding the following line to .xsessionrc fixed the issue (haven’t checked for wayland sessions though).

. $HOME/.profile

#Debian #Debian11 #foss #floss #libre_software #applications #desktop #gui #nix #flatpak #flatpaks #gnu #linux #opensource #open_source #tmux #bash #profile #shell #terminal

  • @[email protected]
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    51 year ago

    Do you have anything else your ~/.bashrc that is perhaps overwriting the PATH?

    One thing you can do is just add echos to your .profile to see if it is getting sourced and what the state of PATH is as it gets loaded. That might help you trace what is happening.

    • Libre ExtremistOP
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      01 year ago

      Thanks for the response. I will try to as you have advised. Adding those lines to .bashrc helped with flatpaks but not with nix.