Kate default search path?

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Hi,

I was wondering which $PATH kate uses by default to search for binaries?
I’ve installed several LSP’s, which have their binaries either in ~/bin, or ~/node_modules/.bin, or … but Kate doesn’t find them.

I’ve added them to my $PATH in .zshrc, and as such I can find the binary, Kate doesn’t seem to pick this up.

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I only see the binary of kate in 1 place:

 ~/Descargas  whereis kate                                                                     ✔  15:54:36 
kate: /usr/bin/kate /usr/share/man/man1/kate.1.gz

Regards

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Thanks, but what I’m looking for is which path Kate will search to find language server binaries, not where Kate itself is.

I’ve also tried adding the path to ~/.profile, but no difference.

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If kate is started by plasma, the $PATH set up in your .zshrc may not have been run. Depending on the distro, KDE might be started without running the likes of .profile or /etc/profile.

To get around this, scripts in ~/.config/plasma-workspace/env are sourced early and $PATH settings there will work for apps started by plasma. Note that these scripts are sourced by sh (which is dash on debian derived distros); the shebang is ignored and constructs not supported by sh cause the scripts to exit silently.

The scripts show up in system settings, autostart as “Pre-startup Scripts”, but one can’t add them there.

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my env folder is empty on kubuntu, but if you add your $PATH statement here it should get picked up by plasma.

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