I too was hit this problem (trying to get ~/bin in $PATH to work in gnome-terminal) and I came up with following solution. Append this to .bashrc or /etc/bash.bashrc, or perhaps even to /etc/profile:
# add $HOME/bin to path unless it is already there case $PATH in *$HOME/bin*) # do nothing ;; *) # insert $HOME/bin to path if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then PATH="$HOME/bin":"$PATH" fi esac -- .bash_profile is not sources when X session starts https://launchpad.net/bugs/66004 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs