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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: PATH for GUI applications (was: Default PATH setting - reduce to
 something more sensible?)
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2025 00:03:40 -0000 (UTC)
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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.