Should not ~/bin be included in path when running via VNC?

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On Sat, May 23, 2020, 16:22 Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am baffled by a strange situation:
> Laptop with Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS with the Mate desktop
>
> If I access the system through PuTTY all executables inside ~/bin are
> available for use.
>
> But when I access the machine via VNC and use a Terminal window on the
> desktop, then ~/bin is strangely not on path so none of the
> executables are directly accessible. I have to always include the
> ~/bin/ in front of them.
>
> What causes this?
>

Profile vs. bashrc, in /etc, in tilde.
PATH is a convention, and different people at different times arrive at
different interpretations.


> Note: On Raspbian via VNC this works as it should, i.e. a terminal
> window on the GUI has ~/bin on path like PuTTY has.
>
>
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