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  • PATH for GUI applications (was: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible?)

    From Axel Reichert@mail@axel-reichert.de to comp.unix.shell on Sat Jan 25 09:20:52 2025
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    Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:

    On 21.01.2025 07:52, Axel Reichert wrote:
    Well, /usr/games is populated here ... (-:

    Well, the 50+ games I had installed there I invoke by the GUI menu (so
    no PATH component would be necessary for that in my case).

    Not so sure. My gut feeling is that GUIs have even more complicated
    mechanisms of finding/executing stuff, highly dependent on the window manager/desktop environment/Linux distribution and a lot of menu
    infrastructure and .desktop files behind the scenes.

    But probably it is better not to open this can of works, which might be off-topic in this group in a strict sense anyway.

    Best regards

    Axel
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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.unix.shell on Sun Jan 26 00:03:40 2025
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    On Sat, 25 Jan 2025 09:20:52 +0100, Axel Reichert wrote:

    Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:

    Well, the 50+ games I had installed there I invoke by the GUI menu (so
    no PATH component would be necessary for that in my case).

    Not so sure. My gut feeling is that GUIs have even more complicated mechanisms of finding/executing stuff, highly dependent on the window manager/desktop environment/Linux distribution and a lot of menu infrastructure and .desktop files behind the scenes.

    But typically not dependent on the PATH.
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