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In Xfce, Alt-F2 opens a dialog "Application Finder" (xfce4-appfinder -c). How to customize the $PATH of Xfce's session that is used for auto-completing and running the command?

(It's not the $PATH of .profile or .bashrc)

Kevin Bowen
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I'm a bit late to the party, but for some reason Appfinder was finding things in my customized $PATH for a long time, before suddenly it stopped some time ago.

So, if you're using xinit, then put a file into /etc/X11/Xsession.d/ before the 55xfce4-session file. Like this:

/etc/X11/Xsession.d$ cat 49add-user-path 
[ -d "$HOME/bin" ] && PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"

And log out, log in, and $PATH is propagated nicely among running components.

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Xfce does not check .profile, and .bashrc is only used for interactive bash shells. If you want to add path variables, one way is to add them to ~/.pam_environment. However, the syntax is a little bit different from the usual profile files.

Below is an example to add ~/bin to the path used by Application finder:

PATH DEFAULT=${PATH}:${HOME}/bin
Kevin Bowen
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