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