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#919 lxpanelctl run ignores $PATH

Status: open

Owner: nobody

Labels: lxpanel (297) lxpanelctl (1)

Priority: 5

Updated: 2019-03-08

Created: 2019-02-27

Creator: Sondra Kinsey

Private: No

What I did:

In a terminal, I enter:
PATH=~/.local/bin:/usr/bin lxpanelctl run
In the launcher, I type "tagtime". ~/.local/bin/tagtime exists and is executable by all users.

What happens:

An error dialog box says: Failed to execute child process “tagtime” (No such file or directory)

What should happen:

lxpanelctl should use the $PATH variable to find the file at ~/.local/bin/tagtime and execute it.

Environment info:

lxpanel 0.9.3
Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS

Discussion

Mamoru TASAKA - 2019-03-08

Because "lxpanel run" just tells "lxpanel" process to launch dialog and then exits immediately, the process showing the dialog is "lxpanel" process, so the PATH the launch dialog is using is the one of "lxpanel" process, not lxpanel process (which already exited).

You can workaround this by putting the dialog env PATH=/home/yourname/.local/bin tagtime

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