How to set PATH for Dolphin servicemenu

[Konstantin Kharlamov]

In this case I'm not sure, perhaps anyone else has something to say about that…

Though, can't you just write a full path inside your .desktop file?

On Thu, 2023-05-11 at 22:05 +0200, Zener wrote:
> It still doesn't work...again After reboot...
> Is wayland, Dolphin or what the issue?!?
> 
> Il gio 11 mag 2023, 21:47 Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel at yandex.ru> ha
> scritto:
> > Please, use "reply all" in the mail client so that discussion gets
> > duplicated on the list and someone else may come up with ideas and what not.
> > 
> > So, it's, interesting: actually, I just realized that both /etc/environment
> > and /etc/profile as well as ~/.profile are all read by shells. I never
> > thought about that.
> > 
> > So, if you modified your ~/.profile file, I would presume it should work (I
> > never tried though, just judging by what I just read on the topic), however
> > I think you need to restart DE (that is, log out and log back in) for these
> > changes to start working. That is because your DE would need to get launched
> > with these env. variables, and then it would launch ".desktop" file apps
> > using the environment it got.
> > 
> > On Thu, 2023-05-11 at 20:57 +0200, Zener wrote:
> > > Ok... I've used ~/.profile (because it's for a personal config) but It
> > > doesn't work.
> > > What's a correct syntax?
> > > 
> > > Il gio 11 mag 2023, 20:52 Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel at yandex.ru> ha
> > > scritto:
> > > > On Thu, 2023-05-11 at 20:28 +0200, Zener wrote:
> > > > > Hi.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I use Dolphin filemanager on a gnome-session on wayland - Arch Linux.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I've set the correct PATH on .bashrc, in fact from terminal my exec 
> > > > > files work but not to from a .desktop file in servicemenu of Dolphin.
> > > > > 
> > > > > How can i add the correct PATH on Dolphin?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Regards.
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Right, because `.bashrc` is only read by bash. When you launch an app
> > > > from a desktop file, there's no bash involved (unless of course the
> > > > Exec= call inside .desktop file calls bash explicitly).
> > > > 
> > > > Use `/etc/profile` file instead, the $PATH is usually set there.
> > 
> > 

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