XTerm getting $PATH set via $HOME/.profile or $HOME/.shrc

puhaTek

Hi running NetBSD 9.2 amd64. When I run 'xterm' under my window manager 'twm' it $PATH directories are not the same that are in the $HOME/.profile

My user group is wheel and I'm not expecting the superuser directories as default i.e /sbin, but the games directory is not included by default.

Also I created a #!/bin/sh script which would add the directories but once the script exits the 'echo $PATH' results are not the same as the script.

TLDR, I want the paths that are in $HOME/.profile added to my $PATH when I launch a new 'xterm'

Thanks for your help

puhaTek

Forgot to add that my shell that I am using and learning scripting with is /bin/sh

and 'echo $PATH' at the shell prompt brings up
/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/pkg/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R7bin

ok when I 'su -l root' all the .profile paths get added and when I 'su -l username' and when I 'echo $PATH' it then executes $HOME/.profile

Is there a way to do this automatically without having to do 'su -l username' everytime with xterm??

Thanks

nia

Add this to your xsession file?

if [ -f $HOME/.profile ]; then
        . $HOME/.profile
fi

puhaTek

Thanks nia it works.

I added that to my '.xinitrc' file because '.xsession -> .xinitrc'

seems to have quite a few blank lines in the '.xinitrc' file between the 'if' and 'fi' calls, not that it matters on todays fast cpus.

Edit Can one of the moderators please rename this thread to
[SOLVED] Xterm not getting $PATH set via $HOME/.profile or $HOME/.shrc
because I can't figure out how to do it myself. Thanks 😄