PATH for GUI applications (was: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible?)

Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:

On 21.01.2025 07:52, Axel Reichert wrote:

Well, /usr/games is populated here ...   (-:

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Well, the 50+ games I had installed there I invoke by the GUI menu (so
no PATH component would be necessary for that in my case).

Not so sure. My gut feeling is that GUIs have even more complicated
mechanisms of finding/executing stuff, highly dependent on the window
manager/desktop environment/Linux distribution and a lot of menu
infrastructure and .desktop files behind the scenes.

But probably it is better not to open this can of works, which might be
off-topic in this group in a strict sense anyway.

Best regards

Axel