Neovim desktop file doesn't set $PATH correctly

[danielnolan]

If I open alacritty and then open neovim with nvim the $PATH is set correctly in neovim

echo $PATH from nvim command line

If I open neovim with the keyboard hotkey or with the walker launcher the path is not correct.
echo $PATH from nvim command line

This causes issues for things like nodejs installed via mise since neovim isn't able to find it in the $PATH.

[Sunny-esc]

Alacritty starts a login shell , which sources shell init files like:
.bashrc, .zshrc, .profile, etc. Those init files add mise to $PATH, so Neovim inherits the correct environment.

Launchers or hotkeys, however, don't start a shell.
They just launch Neovim directly via a .desktop file or a GUI process.

These GUI environments do not load your shell config files, so environment variables like $PATH may be incomplete or outdated.

Set $PATH in a system-wide environment config
Edit the file:

sudo nano /etc/environment

And add your full desired $PATH, for example:

PATH="/home/youruser/.local/share/mise/installs/node/22.10.0/bin:/home/youruser/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin"

this will solve ur issues

[ryanrhughes]

Related to #602 but not fully resolved by it. We'd need to find a way to get the Mise path added in this same way to ~/.config/uwsm/env