How to set up PATH ??

[Matt Graham]

On 2020-10-04 12:31, joe--- via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa
> How can I edit .profile so it will find all
> of my shell script utilities in /home/joe/path ??
> 
> I tried adding the 4 "set PATH" lines shown below, but it does not 
> work:
> 
> # ~/.profile: executed by the command interpreter for login shells.
> # This file is not read by bash(1), if ~/.bash_profile or 
> ~/.bash_login
> # exists.

.profile is not read if .bash_profile exists.  You probably have a 
.bash_profile that looks something like this:

#This file is sourced by bash when you log in interactively.
[ -f ~/.bashrc ] && . ~/.bashrc

...so in .bashrc , you would want to have

export PATH=/home/joe/path:$PATH

as well as all the other things you normally put in .bashrc .

> Also, I cannot find where to add desktops (workspaces)
> in this version of linux.

Depends on the desktop environment.  KDE, system settings->workspace 
behavior->virtual desktops, make sure there are at least 2.  Then 
customize the task manager bar, and look for the "pager" widget and drag 
it to where you want.  GNOME, gno idea.

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