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

  • bahmanm
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    1 year ago

    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.)

    • Libre ExtremistOP
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      1 year ago

      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.