Sway: Setting PATH from environment.d

[dinnymate]

My sway config contains the line:
exec_always "systemctl --user import-environment"
It works fine for setting most environment variables but it ignores my PATH setting.
If I change it to PATH1 it works fine.

[ddevault]

Whatever this is, it's not our problem.

[dinnymate]

Then, at least update the documentation about it, and provide an alternate solution. Thanks

[emersion]

We have no docs about this. If you're referring to the wiki, it's user-contributed, we aren't maintaining it.

[Emantor]

See #4398, this is more of a systemd issue and you can update the wiki with your information and the information contained in the other bug.

[rumpelsepp]

I don't know why, but I assumed, you were using the environment.d stuff. A had a similar bug a while ago, worth referencing: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6414

[freed00m]

@dinnymate I was baffled by this also, why in other DE the path can be set from ~/.config/environment.d/ but from sway it was impossible while other variables were loaded.

For others stumbling uppon this and using pam, you can set path ~/.pam_environment for example like this

PATH        DEFAULT=/home/@{PAM_USER}/.local/bin:${PATH}

[EvanCarroll]

I also came here ready to file this as a bug. It's even clearly supported in man environment.d

[freed00m]

@EvanCarroll - there is a milion ways how the PATH could've been destroyed in the process.

For example I am currently trying to know why when Sway starts it sets up the SWAYSOCK variable but for some reason is not imported in the systemd --user environment, for some reason you can prevent that somehow.

For example when I use GDM for loggin, I don't have PATH set from systemctl --user import-environment but if I log from agetty and then start sway as service I do have the PATH :O

[EvanCarroll]

Well, this is the reason I found which seems to be it for me,

This is what Debian installs in /etc/profile per default. As you can see, this will statically set PATH to a value depending on the effective UID.

Essentially Debian runs /etc/profile AFTER system.d thereby overriding the environment.d setting of the PATH variable to a static string.

if [ "`id -u`" -eq 0 ]; then
  PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"
else
  PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games"
fi
export PATH

[freed00m]

Yep that's propably correct, I suspect there is some garbage in /etc/profile.d/*.sh

as any program can install it and F*ck with your $PATH

# Load profiles from /etc/profile.d
if test -d /etc/profile.d/; then
    for profile in /etc/profile.d/*.sh; do
        test -r "$profile" && . "$profile"
    done
    unset profile
fi