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?
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I had a similar issue some time ago, not sure which distro it was. The solution was to rename the
.profileto.bash_profile:)Thanks for the response. But in my case, even that does not work as well.
Does your .bashrc actually source .bash_profile? Add
[ ! -f "~/.bash_profile" ] || . "~/.bash_profile"(.bash_profile doesn’t exist or source it) to the end if not.Since
.bashrcis executed for all non-login shells, it shouldn’t really source.profile, which is only meant for login shells, and might trigger expensive activity. (.profilemight source.bashrc, but that`s fine.)Adding those lines to .bashrc helped with flatpaks but not with nix.
You’ve probably already checked it out but make sure you’ve got only one of
.profile,.bash_profile,.bashprofile. bash will only execute one of them in case there’s more than one (not sure which one off the top of my head.)I only have .profile. Actually adding those lines as to .bashrc as suggested by @palordrolap@kbin.social helped for the flatpak commands. But the issue with .desktop files for programs installed using nix still persists.